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adjective

Lovely adj. (compar. lovelier; superl. loveliest)

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." "Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely." "If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers."

Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship. "A most lovely gentlemanlike man."

Loving; tender. (Obs.) "A lovely kiss." "Many a lovely look on them he cast."

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."

Synonyms: Beautiful; charming; delightful; delectable; enchanting; lovable; amiable.

adverb

Lovely adv. In a manner to please, or to excite love. (Obs. or R.)

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Etymology of 'Lovely'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lovely" Quotes from Famous Books

... somewhat agitated, somewhat intoxicated by the pale brightness of the night and the consciousness of my proximity to a lovely woman. ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... having been attracted in any marked degree towards woman-kind; or, to put it more precisely, he had not yet been in love. But now it seemed that the hour which comes to all of Adam's sons had come to him; for on leaving Diana he thought of nothing else but her lovely face and charming smile, and, until he met her again, her image was ...

— The Silent House • Fergus Hume

... Why, he has done being a worm. His creeping days are over. He has only to lie snug and quiet under the ground a while; then wake and come up to the sunshine some bright morning with a new body and a pair of lovely wings to spread ...

— Miss Elliot's Girls • Mrs Mary Spring Corning

... Attend the burial of our dear sister, Mary Frances, wife of my nephew, John Kline. We did all we could for her; but that dreadful destroyer, diphtheria, would have its way, and in much anguish of heart we submit. She was a lovely and tender plant; too tender for this world. Her age was twenty years, ten months and ...

— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline

... many harassing thoughts. Your favourite trees are in full leaf, the hawthorn hedges in blossom, and the nightingales sing every evening in the wood-lane. You cannot feel miserable among such sights and sounds of beauty in this lovely month of May, or you are not the same Flora I ...

— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie

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