lovely

[love·ly]

You've probably heard the adjective lovely to describe something good looking, but did you know that, as a noun, lovely refers, specifically, to a beautiful girl employed as a photographer’s model?

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Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.

Noun
a very pretty girl who works as a photographer''s model

Adjective S.
appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

Adjective S.
lovable especially in a childlike or naive way


superl.
Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.

superl.
Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.

superl.
Loving; tender.

superl.
Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.

adv.
In a manner to please, or to excite love.


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.
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.
2. Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
A most lovely gentlemanlike man.
3. Loving; tender. [Obs.] "A lovely kiss." Shak.
Many a lovely look on them he cast.
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.
Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns.
Syn. -- Beautiful; charming; delightful; delectable; enchanting; lovable; amiable.

Lovely

Love"ly, adv. In a manner to please, or to excite love. [Obs. or R.] Tyndale.

Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.

In a manner to please, or to excite love.

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Usage Examples

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

I get such lovely gifts from fans... amazing pictures, handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

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Other Usage Examples

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

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