Definition of LOVELINESS

Choose the Right Synonym for lovely

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

Durham, North Carolina's Merge Records is reissuing Manos in a lovely new package—on vinyl and CD—and with a slightly different cover and a few bonus tracks. Reissues of '90s records are legion right now, but this is not one to feel cynical about. — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, "Taking to Rebecca Gates of The Spinanes, as Manos—a Lost '90s Indie-Rock Classic—Gets a Deluxe Reissue," 5 Dec. 2018 Just such a lovely moment when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex met 5-year-old Luke Vincent from Buninyong Public School. — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, "The Story Behind that Adorable Photo of Prince Harry Hugging a Young Child in Dubbo, Australia," 17 Oct. 2018 Tab, who died on July 8 at 86, was so sweet and so generous and just a lovely man. — Pamela Adlon, Time, "Tab Hunter Was a Model Of Kindness in Hollywood," 12 July 2018 And Rooney Mara drifts a bit too spacily through the proceedings as Annu, a lovely Swedish therapist who embraces Callahan’s body and nurtures his art. — Justin Chang, latimes.com, "Review: Joaquin Phoenix stars in the captivating addiction drama 'Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot'," 12 July 2018 The lovely Volunteer Park Conservatory hosts an Open House Friday, Nov. 16, to kick off its Holiday Express Train and Poinsettia Display at the Victorian greenhouse through Jan. 1. — Madeline Mckenzie, The Seattle Times, "Holiday fun gets rolling with a turkey toss, trees, trains, treats and more," 14 Nov. 2018 Location: Ocean City, Maryland Price: $3,599,000 There are plenty of lovely historic colonials and Victorians in the Northeast, but every now and again a contemporary catches our eye. — Megan Barber, Curbed, "Modern glass and steel house asks $3.6M," 5 Nov. 2018 The Base Station itself still has a lovely looking aluminum and leather base with three charging coils, allowing it to charge up to two devices at once without worrying too much about getting placement exactly lined up. — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, "Nomad’s new wireless charger might fill the AirPower-shaped void in your life," 31 Oct. 2018 Images were sharp, featured lovely textures and shaders, and ran at what seemed to be 60-120 frames per second to my eyes. — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, "2018 iPad Pro hands-on: Improving on the world’s best tablet," 30 Oct. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

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 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?," 19 May 2017 Instead of Britain’s Marmite and baked bean lovelies, Vegemite and mashed avocado became favored spreads Down Under. — John Birdsall, Bon Appetit, "Why Are We Still Talking About Avocado Toast?," 19 July 2017

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