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[luhv-lee]

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adjective

charmingly or exquisitely beautiful: a lovely flower.

having a beauty that appeals to the heart or mind as well as to the eye, as a person or a face.

delightful; highly pleasing: to have a lovely time.

of a great moral or spiritual beauty: a lovely character.

noun

Informal. a beautiful woman, especially a show girl.

any person or thing that is pleasing, highly satisfying, or the like: Every car in the new line is a lovely.

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adverb

Nonstandard. very well; splendidly.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English luvelich, Old English luflīc amiable. See love, -ly

Related forms

love·li·ly, adverb

love·li·ness, noun

Synonyms
1, 2. See beautiful.

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It was lovely and graceful, tangy and deliciously fresh despite the years, and the flavors persisted in the mouth.

Reading one of these essays, and then reading the comments, has become a lovely new way of relaxing.

The city has beautiful parks, lovely museums and restaurants, and a thriving business and civic community.

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It was lovely and graceful, tangy and deliciously fresh despite the years, and the flavors persisted in the mouth.

Reading one of these essays, and then reading the comments, has become a lovely new way of relaxing.

The city has beautiful parks, lovely museums and restaurants, and a thriving business and civic community.

But the emerald hillsides appear lovely even without the walk and outstanding picnic spots abound.

What a lovely piece on the wonders of eye and vision.

It became obvious to us how these small, lovely examples can become replicated over and over again.

Lovely wild mousse delivers a whole strawberry patch laced with lime.

Gone is the awkward and hard to navigate popover, replaced by a full screen of thumbnails on a lovely wooden background.

Mushrooms are flavorful and can have lovely texture.

The results of previous periods of manic branch building have made lovely restaurants.

Besides that, the scene had a lovely hazy quality, which unfortunately rendered the scene quite flat.

Lovely writing by a seemingly sensible and sensitive thinker.

I've been researching old-time brothels, and it turns out that they were lovely places.

Begonia boliviensis, cascading begonia, is a particularly lovely hanging type with profuse orange-red blooms.

The lovely almond trees stood about it in perpetual leaf.

Give literary critics a bit of lovely writing, no matter how self-involved, and they will swoon.

Happy times, and pleasant to think back to an amazing time spent with friends in a beautiful land with lovely people.

Our lovely camp site now occupied by a hut and dirt, squalor, and filth.

Surface tension, the force that produces the lovely teardrop shape of dripping water, also resists surface ruptures.

Fascinating video featuring a lovely man and his beautiful spiritual relationship with his feathered friends.

Our shiitake mushroom log gave us such a lovely first crop.

It is a lovely small scoria cone that you can walk/drive to the summit.

First, there are a lot of two-year colleges, and many are situated in lovely locations.

Singapore has good schools, infrastructure and weather, and lovely golf courses to boot.

The god and his dog were walking along the beach, and the dog bit into a mollusk, which stained his mouth a lovely purple.

Our lovely earth is not a laboratory for your deadly ideas.

Floyd is a lovely place born and raised and will never leave.

It's a8-mile hike to a footbridge with a fine view of this lovely waterfall.

Rather, the only thing beauty guarantees is that we'll stare for too long at some lovely looking thing.

The first, a lovely map of the happiest places in the country.

For a city that has felt few qualms about destroying innumerable lovely colonial structures, it is an odd one to preserve.

In this shot, each woman is stepping forward, and this creates a lovely harmony of movement.

It is a lovely thing to see the predictions made by theory prior to there being evidence that it is so.

Lovely but it seems to be a painting, or photo of painting.

They won't be quite as thick as jams made with added pectin, but they will have a lovely silken texture.

The beautiful and versatile camera crane, almost as lovely as it's avian counterpart.

Come on nuclear fans, our lovely earth cannot be your playground.

Torres paints eyes and beak on the lovely creature, which will star on a wedding cake.

They're lovely on their own, but poinsettias can be even better when you combine them with other indoor plants.

All the birds were beautiful, but this one was particularly lovely.

It's a lovely experience to swim in this silky, non-smelly water.

Another example of salvaged wood turned into a lovely piece of outdoor furniture.

Her lovely voice carries out over the field to a group of stretching athletes.

It's the inborn tendency- the lovely treeshrew can prove it.

Similar to species, but with lovely blooms of pure white more add to my plant list.

Things go on this way forever, infinitely various and frighteningly lovely.

Lovely in combination with lavenders in the more usual hues.

Sunflower sprouts are large, leafy, and lovely in our spring version of a traditional garden salad.

Small, light green leaves have a lovely lemon-basil scent.

Lovely in combination with lavenders in the more add to my plant list.

Similar to species, but with lovely blooms of pure white add to my plant list.

Cleage engages lively characters in lovely interaction.

My advisor and her husband took me for a lovely dinner with plenty of great wine.

The cold air over this relatively warmer body of water created this lovely steam rising off the water.

Winter is a lovely time to visit, as rain can actually be romantic when.

Rucci to create embroidery designs, including the lovely shredded tulle.

It's functional, but ill-fitting, and it will be lovely to have the real one in my school's colors.

The dying hero is attended by a group of lovely and admiring young women.

Purists, however, miss that lovely sound of quarters hitting the pan.

Downtown is nice and the older residential sections are tree shrouded and quite lovely.

Thanks for the lovely article, after two years of playing almost every day, this is really rewarding.

Lovely capture of colour, texture, light and height.

And, more often than not, it contains a lovely dose of tragedy.

Honestly, there is not a single season where things outside are not incredibly peaceful and lovely.

But when all was said, her films were few, and memorable mostly because she was so lovely in them.

In the meantime, feast your eyes on these lovely sketches of some of the characters you'll meet in your travels.

Mmmm a lovely little candlelit place with dark woods and sparkling sconces.

For example, our office building has what was supposed to be a lovely pond at its center.

Less seen and shyer birds include the hadada ibis and the lovely black-crowned tchagra.

We both have lovely friable soil that's full of earthworms.

Lovely area, with plenty of opportunities for outdoor recreation.

It shows that environments not remotely natural in their origins can become lovely to inhabit.

In that chapel is a lovely window where the morning light streams in and washes the simple flowers with light.

Pushed in his wheel chair by a lovely college girl.

And junipers, with their lovely fine textures, fit right in with that way of thinking.

It can get expensive if you're buying these lovely products in a holiday supply store.

Hartland has created a lovely tribute to all of the people who help to make a museum's dinosaur exhibit possible.

These lovely bags are made from the same non-paper paper.

While the lovely pants and tunic are in evening textures, they are decidedly informal.

Consider yourself lucky if you ever get to travel to this lovely area.

Second, it is a lovely piece of photo nerd jewelry, thanks to the color-coordinated frames and straps.

Quite a lovely little ad hominem attack you have going on, here.

While this is a lovely image, it's not necessarily reflective of reality.

It brought back lovely memories of how simple life seemed there and fun.

It's going to be a lovely ribbon of blue when it blooms next spring.

Surprisingly, the balls had a lovely appearance that reminded me of oversized white pearls.

OK, this is getting depressing, and it is such a lovely evening.

These belonged to an epaulette shark, small and lovely and speckled, lithe as an eel as it curled round a coral pillar.

Then they sell all that lovely opium to fund terrorism.

Ditch the lovely waifs for an episode and see some truly practical design.

It's amazing how much of a moral boost you get when that lovely new admin starts working.

But it's worth risking all this and more to live in such a lovely city on the edge of a continent, on the edge of history.

It is also beautiful, and makes a lovely piece of jewelry in its own right.

It is a lovely place, both as a town and the surrounding natural landscape.

The plywood, nylon and aluminum construction sits over the front wheel where you can gaze upon its lovely curves as you ride.

Lovely toasted flavor, with notes of coffee and chocolate.

It had the original cover, which is a lovely cream color, somewhat roughly textured.

It looks lovely in flower arrangements, dangling down the side of a vase.

Then you've got a chilled beer in one hand, good tunes playing, and two lovely ladies to feast your eyes on.

Warm and crispy veggie fritters accompanied by a crisp seasonal salad makes for a lovely autumn.

Tall and slender, this perennial sways in the wind and delivers a lovely blue haze of flowers through much of summer.

So lovely and one of the best places to call home while on vacation.

The garden design above is lovely and can be adapted for my part of the country.

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World English Dictionary

lovely (ˈlʌvlɪ)

—*adj* , -lier, -liest
1.	very attractive or beautiful
2.	highly pleasing or enjoyable: a lovely time
3.	loving and attentive
4.	inspiring love; lovable

—n , -lier, -liest, -lies
5.	slang a lovely woman

'loveliness

—n

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Word Origin & History

lovely

O.E. luflic "affectionate, loveable," the modern sense of "lovable on account of beauty, attractive" is from c.1300, "applied indiscriminately to all pleasing material objects, from a piece of plum-cake to a Gothic cathedral" [Marsh].

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