lovely
Delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace.
Adjective 2 meanings
Delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace.
“It's a lovely day and the sun is shining.”
Nice; wonderful.
“It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend.”
Noun 3 meanings
An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.
“a calendar depicting young lovelies in bikinis”
Term of fond address.
“Goodbye, my lovely.”
A lovely object.
Adverb 1 meaning
In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully.
Etymology
From Middle English lovely, luvelich, lufli, from Old English luflīċ, luflīc (“amiable, loving, lovable”), equivalent to love + -ly.
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LOVELY at a glance
LOVELY has 6 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (L 1 + O 1 + V 4 + E 1 + L 1 + Y 4) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,819 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with lovely
All rhymes- LIKELY13
- COMPLETELY19
- ABSOLUTELY15
- IMMEDIATELY19
- DEFINITELY17
- EXTREMELY21
- ENTIRELY11
- RELATIVELY16
- APPROXIMATELY29
- UNFORTUNATELY19
- LARGELY11
- ULTIMATELY15
One letter away
- LONELY9
- LIVELY12
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