lovely

Meanings

Adjective

• Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
• Very nice, wonderful.
• Inspiring love or friendship; amiable.
• Loving, filled with love.
• Worthy of praise.

Noun

• An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.
• A lovely object.

Adverb

• In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully.

Related

Similar words

• beautiful
• charming
• lovable
• lovesome
• loving

Origin

• From Middle English lovely, luvelich, lufli, from Old English luflīċ, luflīc, equivalent to love + -ly.
• From Middle English loveliche, luveliche, from Old English luflīċe, equivalent to love + -ly.
• From Middle English lovely, loveli, lofli, lovelike, lovelic, equivalent to lofe + -ly. Cognate with Dutch loffelijk ("laudable, praiseworthy"), German löblich ("commendable, laudable, praiseworthy"), Swedish lovlig ("permissible"). More at lofe, love.