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LOVELY
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Irregular inflected forms: lovelier , loveliest
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model
Synonyms:
cover girl; lovely; pin-up
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lovely" is a kind of...):
photographer's model (a model who poses for photographers)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
Classified under:
Similar:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
Derivation:
loveliness (the quality of being good looking and attractive)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lovable especially in a childlike or naive way
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
lovable; loveable (having characteristics that attract love or affection)
Derivation:
loveliness (the quality of being good looking and attractive)
Context examples:
She was still handsome and bore every sign of having in her youth been a very lovely woman.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He professed himself extremely anxious about her fair friend—her fair, lovely, amiable friend.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“Mon Dieu! Alleyne, saw you ever so lovely a face?” cried Ford as they hurried along together.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rapid decay, the early death of a girl so young, so lovely as Marianne, must have struck a less interested person with concern.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
How can I describe all that we saw and all that we did upon that lovely spring day?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yes, Mary, said he, drawing her arm within his, and walking along the sweep as if not knowing where he was: I could not get away sooner; Fanny looked so lovely!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
What a lovely thing a rose is!
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The cheek was lovely but it was paled with emotion, the eyes were bright but it was the brightness of fever, the sensitive mouth was tight and drawn in an effort after self-command.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So they went to the mountains; and as it was a lovely day, they stayed there till the evening.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
