lovely
IPA: ɫˈʌvɫi
noun
- (informal) An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.
- Term of fond address.
- A lovely object.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Martin County, Kentucky, United States.
adjective
- Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
- Very nice, wonderful.
- (obsolete) Inspiring love or friendship; amiable.
- (obsolete) Loving, filled with love.
- (archaic) Worthy of praise.
adverb
- (informal) In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully.
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Examples of "lovely" in Sentences
- And your mouth -- so sweet and sad -- but, what a lovely, _lovely_ smile! "
- "How lovely -- how _lovely_ you are!" he exclaimed, almost under his breath.
- "Oh, what a lovely, _lovely_ house!" cried Sprite, "and what a dear place to live in.
- They used the word lovely to describe everything from fried rice to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
- "Ah! mammy," she exclaimed more than once, "what a lovely, _lovely_ home! how happy we might be here!"
- Betty finally hit the jackpot with a lovely (or should I say $lovely$) man and she fucking blew it away!
- We're always tempted to use the phrase "lovely in lavender," and Mila Kunis might have been just that at Sunday night's Oscars.
- To hear that lovely voice, for I do her justice, and there are lovely notes in her voice, _lovely_, to hear that voice shrieking and screaming away, in what she called the great scene, was simply pitiful.
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