lovable
/ˈlʌvəbəl/
lovable adjective: inspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute.
Adjective
lovable (comparative more lovable or lovabler, superlative most lovable or lovablest)
- Inspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute.
- In short, the old town—the lovablest, old-timiest, easy-goingest old town that ever was—sits there by the River, hugging its traditions, and hoarding its stories, of which it has enough to make a new Thousand and One Nights.1895, M[ollie] E[velyn] M[oore] Davis, “Prologue. The Town and the River.”, in Under the Man-Fig, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press...
- Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time.Benjamin Griffin, Harriet Elinor Smith, editors (2015), “Explanatory Notes”, in Autobiography of Mark Twain (The Mark Twain Papers), volume 3, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN...
lovable meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi and Vietnamese
lovable in Tamil
- அன்பிற்குரிய, விரும்பத்தக்க
lovable in Kannada
- ಪ್ರೀತಿಯೋಗ್ಯ, ಪ್ರೀತಿಪಾತ್ರ, ವಿಶ್ವಾಸಪರ, ಸ್ನೇಹಪರ, ಸೌಜನ್ಯಯುತ
lovable in Punjabi
- lovable, pleasing, attractive, desirable, beautiful
- ਪਿਆਰਾ piārā
lovable in Vietnamese
- inspiring love
- đáng yêu, dễ thương
Examples of lovable in a sentence
- I love him dearly.” / “No doubt you do, miss, for a lovabler child I never did see.[…]”1921, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Mr. Hyde Goes to His Own Place and Susan Takes a Honeymoon”, in Rilla of Ingleside, Toronto, Ont....
- And the lovablest Lima since Ineen MacCormick MacCoort MacConn O’Puckins MacKundred.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC...
- In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
- At 20 pounds, Jimmy Kibble is a lovable, beautiful pomsky — a cross between a Pomeranian and a husky.2023 January 27, Patrick Connolly, “Meet the Orlando rescue dogs playing in Puppy Bowl XIX”, in Orlando Sentinel:
Forms of lovable
| comparative | more lovable |
|---|---|
| comparative | lovabler |
| superlative | most lovable |
| superlative | lovablest |
| alternative form | loveable |
Origin of lovable
From Middle English lovable, loveable, luffeabill, lufabul, equivalent to love + -able.
Words formed from lovable
Questions about lovable
- What does lovable mean?
- Lovable means inspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute.
- What is lovable in Tamil?
- Lovable in Tamil is அன்பிற்குரிய, விரும்பத்தக்க. See Lovable meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use lovable in a sentence?
- I love him dearly.” / “No doubt you do, miss, for a lovabler child I never did see.[…]”
- What part of speech is lovable?
- Lovable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce lovable?
- Lovable is pronounced /ˈlʌvəbəl/.
Words near lovable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lovable (page history and authors); lovable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lovable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਪਿਆਰਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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