louely

Adjective (1)

lovely (comparative lovelier, superlative loveliest)

1. Delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace.
   • It's a lovely day and the sun is shining.
2. Nice; wonderful.
   • It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend.
3. (obsolete) Inspiring love or friendship; amiable.
   • a most lovely gentlemanlike manc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
4. (obsolete) Loving, filled with love.
   • seal the title with a lovely kissc. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Adjective (2)

lovely (comparative lovelier or more lovely, superlative loveliest or most lovely)

1. (archaic) Worthy of praise.
   • And so he is in the eyes of all who live to his praise. To them every attribute of God is lovely. The holiness and purity of his nature is most lovely to them.1773, Thomas Boston (the Elder.), Alexander Colden, The Whole Works of the late reverend and learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick

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