[syn: adorable, endearing, lovely]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lovely \Love"ly\, adv.
In a manner to please, or to excite love. [Obs. or R.]
--Tyndale.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lovely \Love"ly\, a. [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.
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Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely.
--Robert of
Brunne.
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If I had such a tire, this face of mine
Were full as lovely as is this of hers. --Shak.
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2. Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which
excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
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A most lovely gentlemanlike man. --Shak.
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3. Loving; tender. [Obs.] "A lovely kiss." --Shak.
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Many a lovely look on them he cast. --Chaucer.
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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.
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Indeed these fields
Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns.
--Tennyson.
Syn: Beautiful; charming; delightful; delectable; enchanting;
lovable; amiable.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lovely
adj 1: appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
2: lovable especially in a childlike or naive way [syn:
adorable, endearing, lovely]
n 1: a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model
[syn: cover girl, pin-up, lovely]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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