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Lovely

//ˈlʌv.li// adj, adv, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace.

    "It's a lovely day and the sun is shining."

  2. 2
    Worthy of praise. archaic

    "And so he is in the eyes of all who live to his praise. To them every attribute of God is lovely. The holiness and purity of his nature is most lovely to them."

  3. 3
    Nice; wonderful.

    "It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend."

  4. 4
    Inspiring love or friendship; amiable. obsolete

    "a most lovely gentlemanlike man"

  5. 5
    Loving, filled with love. obsolete

    "seal the title with a lovely kiss"

Adjective
  1. 1
    appealing to the emotions as well as the eye wordnet
  2. 2
    lovable especially in a childlike or naive way wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully. informal

    "She's not everyone's cup of tea, what with the way she speaks her mind and doesn't always do her hair in the morning, but she scrubs up lovely."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Martin County, Kentucky, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty. informal

    "a calendar depicting young lovelies in bikinis"

  2. 2
    a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model wordnet
  3. 3
    Term of fond address.

    "Goodbye, my lovely."

  4. 4
    A lovely object.

    "In Montréal, the summer months bring in a huge variety of fruits and vegetables and this is the time to preserve them. Preserving can also refer to the storage of these fiber and vitamin rich lovelies."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English lovely, luvelich, lufli, from Old English luflīċ, luflīc (“amiable, loving, lovable”), equivalent to love + -ly.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lovely, luvelich, lufli, from Old English luflīċ, luflīc (“amiable, loving, lovable”), equivalent to love + -ly.

Etymology 3

From Middle English lovely, luveliche, from Old English luflīċe (“lovingly, amiably, kindly, dearly, with good will or love, willingly”), equivalent to love + -ly.

Etymology 4

From Middle English lofly, lovely (“praiseworthy; laudatory”), equivalent to lofe + -ly. Cognate with Dutch loffelijk (“laudable, praiseworthy”), German löblich (“commendable, laudable, praiseworthy”), Swedish lovlig (“permissible”). More at lofe, love.

Etymology 5

From lovely.

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