lovely
Usage
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Something or someone that is lovely is attractive in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. That which is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower.
Example Sentences
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It glides by smoothly, and Ms. Mann’s lilting, melancholy songs are hypnotically lovely, but the characters’ anguish and psychological distress are only faintly sketched in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
His wife, Mili, 30, from Milton Keynes, said that "he was a lovely husband and father who always wanted to help everyone".
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Rostam brought his lovely and inquisitive new album, “American Stories,” to the Ford in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
“It was a lovely kind of homecoming, a debt paid, really,” Oldman tells me in a Zoom conversation from London.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
Now, after being washed in boiling water and bleach, it was no longer brown at all, but a perfectly lovely, nearly white color, not quite beige, not quite cream.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing lovely
Call of Beauty: Synonyms for "Beautiful"
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