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adjective

Lovely adj. (compar. lovelier; superl. loveliest)

Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. "Lovely to look on." "Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely." "If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers."

Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship. "A most lovely gentlemanlike man."

Loving; tender. (Obs.) "A lovely kiss." "Many a lovely look on them he cast."

Very pleasing; applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody. "Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns."

Synonyms: Beautiful; charming; delightful; delectable; enchanting; lovable; amiable.

adverb

Lovely adv. In a manner to please, or to excite love. (Obs. or R.)

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"Lovely" Quotes from Famous Books

... unpleasant word to say, ladies," he said, at last, still controlling his feelings with a masterly effort. Then offerings a hand to the mother, he bowed respectfully and said "Good-by;" and to her, who now turned with evident feeling evinced in her lovely face at the idea of a long parting, he offered his hand, which was frankly pressed, while he said: "I carry away a heavy heart to sea with me, Miss Huntington; could it be weighed, it would ...

— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray

... the valley of Thingvalla there was no lack of variety. At one time there was an arm of the river Oxer to cross, at another we traversed a cheerful meadow; sometimes we even passed through little shrubberies,—that is to say, according to the Icelandic acceptation of the term. In my country these lovely shrubberies would have been cleared away as useless underwood. The trees trail along the ground, seldom attaining a height of more than two feet. When one of these puny stems reaches four feet in height, it is considered a gigantic tree. The greater portion of these miniature forests ...

— Visit to Iceland - and the Scandinavian North • Ida Pfeiffer

... into the work the full strength of the company. Mrs. F. was an able romancist of the ineffable school—I know no other name to apply to a school whose heroes are all dainty and all perfect. She wrote the opening chapter, and introduced a lovely blonde simpleton who talked nothing but pearls and poetry and who was virtuous to the verge of eccentricity. She also introduced a young French Duke of aggravated refinement, in love with the blonde. Mr. F. followed next week, with a brilliant lawyer who set ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... evening—a small home dinner-party—and so perfect were the appointments and service, that one not knowing would scarcely have imagined it to be the first dinner served in that lovely room. A little later; at the foot of the garden of bay and cedar, neighbors, inspired by Dan Beard, who had recently located near by, set off some fireworks. Clemens stepped out on the terrace and saw rockets climbing through the summer sky ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... hunter, lifting a bright eye Up toward the crescent moon, with grateful heart Called on the lovely wanderer who bestow'd That timely light to share his joyous sport. And hence a beaming goddess, with her nymphs, Across the lawn, and through the darksome grove (Not unaccompanied with tuneful notes, By echo multiplied from rock or cave), Swept ...

— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson

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