Other Words from lovely

Adjective

lovelily \ ˈləv-lə-lē

\ adverb

loveliness \ ˈləv-lē-nəs

\ noun

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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. See More

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective There have been some really lovely comments on the YouTube channels that are showing it. — al, 22 June 2022 That’s a really lovely amount of time to get your teeth into. — Jason Diamond, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2022 For this project, the home had a really lovely neutral and timeless style throughout. — Ann Abel, House Beautiful, 7 June 2022 That’s suspension ends Thursday, but Ashley did just a really lovely job in her story, capturing the sense of, of local pride. — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 May 2022 Thankfully, on Sunday afternoon, the fashion gods gave us good weather, producing a lovely scene. — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 July 2022 Shop more lovely looks below, and raise a toast to the queen herself, Mrs. Affleck! — Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2022 Yes, some pet raccoons are lovely and sweet, but that is not the most likely outcome from adopting one. — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2022 Anti-scholarship rants in the catalogue undermine a lovely show. — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 July 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun No, Colin Frissell hooking up with the three lovelies in Wisconsin. — Kyle Smith, National Review, 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, 13 Aug. 2019 Here are some of the lovelies that were arrested recently -- the Berkeley deal. — Fox News, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 15 Sep. 2017 See More

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