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lovely

lovely

4 definitions found for lovely

From 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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From 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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From 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]

From 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