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5 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lovely \Love"ly\, adjective [Compar. {Lovelier}; superl. {Loveliest}.] [AS. luflic.]
1. Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. ''Lovely to look on.'' --Piers Plowman.
Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely. --Robert of Brunne.
If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers. --Shak.
2. Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
A most lovely gentlemanlike man. --Shak.
3. Loving; tender. [Obs.] ''A lovely kiss.'' --Shak.
Many a lovely look on them he cast. --Chaucer.
4. Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.
Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns. --Tennyson.
Syn: Beautiful; charming; delightful; delectable; enchanting; lovable; amiable.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lovely \Love"ly\, adverb In a manner to please, or to excite love. [Obs. or R.] --Tyndale.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lovely
adjective
1: appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
2: lovable especially in a childlike or naive way [syn: {adorable}, {endearing}]
noun: a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model [syn: {cover girl}, {pin-up}] [also: {loveliest}, {lovelier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "lovely": admirable, adorable, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, agreeable, alluring, angelic, appealing, attractive, beaut, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, captivating, caressable, charming, comely, cuddlesome, dainty, delectable, delicate, delightful, elegant, enchanting, endowed with beauty, engaging, enjoyable, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exquisite, eye-filling, eyeful, fair, fascinating, fetching, fine, flowerlike, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, gracile, gratifying, handsome, heart-robbing, heavy, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, kissable, knockout, likable, looker, lovable, lovesome, luxurious, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, pulchritudinous, rare, ravishing, satisfactory, satisfying, sensuous, seraphic, stunner, sweet, taking, tantalizing, tempting, thrilling, titillative, voluptuous, winning, winsome, witching
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Lovely, KY Zip code(s): 41231
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