Definition of LOVELINESS

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Adjective

beautiful, lovely, handsome, pretty, comely, fair mean exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure. beautiful applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses. beautiful mountain scenery lovely is close to beautiful but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite. a lovely melody handsome suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance. a handsome Georgian mansion pretty often applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness. a painter of conventionally pretty scenes comely is like handsome in suggesting what is coolly approved rather than emotionally responded to. the comely grace of a dancer fair suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or freshness. fair of face

Examples of lovely in a Sentence

Adjective She was wearing a lovely dress. a lovely bouquet of flowers The song has a lovely melody. The hotel has a lovely view. We enjoyed a lovely dinner. a singer with a lovely voice Their children have lovely manners. How lovely of you to come! It was lovely to have you here! Noun A chorus line of young lovelies danced on the stage.

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective This sort of thing is particularly frustrating because the parts of the QX that aren't trying so hard are lovely. — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, "Our 2019 Infiniti QX50 Underwhelms in its Complexity," 10 Mar. 2020 Would be lovely to see some travel inspired by Greta Thunberg, ditching the air flights and using low-impact travel arrangements. — Krista Rossow, National Geographic, "THE BEST OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX," 11 Feb. 2020 One waiter, Alphonso Nichols, took it upon himself to give a lovely birthday gift via song to two teenagers on their birthdays in Kennewick, Washington. — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, "The Music of Life Is This Olive Garden Employee Singing Happy Birthday," 5 Dec. 2019 In any event, have a lovely day, stay warm and, as always, do keep in touch. — Ed Silverman, STAT, "Pharmalittle: Richard Sackler pushed to downplay OxyContin risks; Trump may scale back pharma protection in trade deal," 3 Dec. 2019 Grey Ellis Here's a lovely, looping, structurally intriguing novel that pulls you from a singular lakeshore retreat through a Bernie Madoff-style financial scheme and out, out, out into the ocean. — Wired Staff, Wired, "WIRED's 13 Must-Read Books for Spring," 26 Feb. 2020 That's why there's a real shifter, gauges that look like gauges, and switchgear that's lovely to touch and easy to use. — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, "Mazda CX-30 Channels the Mazda 3 to Good Effect," 24 Feb. 2020 The sounds were lovely, the playing fresh as well as fastidious. — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, "Dallas Symphony musicians reverse perspectives in a chamber music concert," 19 Feb. 2020 The photo was taken in front of the Old Capitol, where O’Neal Greenhow was held captive, proving the NWP headquarters were indeed in the same historic building, however lovely its gardens. — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, "The secret feminist history of the US Supreme Court," 13 Feb. 2020 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun No, Colin Frissell hooking up with the three lovelies in Wisconsin. — Kyle Smith, National Review, "Hail the Romcom Masterpiece," 10 Dec. 2019 The vegetables: Along with the summer lovelies mentioned above, some people get all crazy and put mushrooms in their ratatouille. — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, "What to do with summer’s bounty of tomatoes, zucchini and more? Make ratatouille," 13 Aug. 2019 Here are some of the lovelies that were arrested recently -- the Berkeley deal. — Fox News, "Ingraham: Far-left billionaires uniting to remake America," 29 Aug. 2018 Scott Rubin was asked to write jokes for National Lampoon’s Strip Poker, a witless pay-per-view series featuring Kaelin and a group of lovelies (including Olivia Munn, then known as Lisa) at the Hedonism II nudist resort in Jamaica. — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, "Can Anyone Repair National Lampoon’s Devastated Brand?," 1 May 2017 The Observer resolved then and there to award these two lovelies his first Mellow MoonPie award, for grit and glimmer in the face of death. — The Masked Observer, AL.com, "The Masked Observer discovers a lot of Eastern Shore energy with the Pierrettes," 31 Jan. 2018 Of these desirable lovelies, only Mabel (who is also played by the gamely resourceful Omar) opens her heart to poor forlorn Freddy. — Charles Mcnulty, latimes.com, "'Pirates of Penzance,' with a piña colada: Gilbert & Sullivan plays as interactive party," 26 Jan. 2018 Its Instagram feed for its men’s line, for example, which has more than 855,000 followers, is a cornucopia of F.O.M.O.-inducing shots of stylish young lovelies cavorting in exotic locales wearing cool watches. — Alex Williams, New York Times, "A Watch Brand by and for Millennials," 30 Oct. 2017 Lunch or dinner isn’t complete without a stop at the pretty-as-a-picture pastry case, with lovelies like chocolate caramel tartlets lined up inside. — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "The Milwaukee 50, with Milwaukee's Top 30 restaurants, ranked," 15 Sep. 2017

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