Synonyms for LOVELY
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1. lovely

   Amiable combines the senses of lovable or lovely and loving; the amiable character has ready affection and kindliness for others, with the qualities that are adapted to win their love; amiable is a higher and stronger word than good-natured or agreeable. Lovely is often applied to externals; as, a lovely face. Amiable denotes a disposition desirous to cheer, please, and make happy. A selfish man of the world may have the art to be agreeable; a handsome, brilliant, and witty person may be charming or even attractive, while by no means amiable. The engaging, winning, and winsome add to amiability something of beauty, accomplishments, and grace. The benignant are calmly kind, as from a height and a distance. Kind, good-natured people may be coarse and rude, and so fail to be agreeable or pleasing; the really amiable are likely to avoid such faults by their earnest desire to please. The good-natured have an easy disposition to get along comfortably with every one in all circumstances. A sweet disposition is very sure to be amiable, the loving heart bringing out all that is lovable and lovely in character.

   Synonyms:
   agreeable, amiable, attractive, benignant, engaging, gentle, good-natured, harming, kind, lovable, loving, pleasant, pleasing, sweet, winning, winsome

   Antonyms:
   acrimonious, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, disagreeable, dogged, gruff, hateful, ill-conditioned, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, morose, sour, sullen, surly, unamiable, unlovely

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1. lovely

   Synonyms:
   amiable, lovable, enchanting, beautiful, pleasing, delightful, charming

   Antonyms:
   unamiable, unlovable, hateful, hideous, plain, homely, unattractive, unlovely

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1. cover girl, pin-up, lovelyadjective

   a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model

   Synonyms:
   lovely, pin-up, cover girl

   Antonyms:
   hateful, ugly

2. lovelyadjective

   appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

   Synonyms:
   endearing, adorable

   Antonyms:
   hateful, ugly

3. adorable, endearing, lovelyadjective

   lovable especially in a childlike or naive way

   Synonyms:
   endearing, adorable, lovely

   Antonyms:
   hateful, ugly

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1. lovelyadjective

   Synonyms:
   pleasing, delightful, charming, delectable, enchanting, winning, sweet, AMIABLE, that inspires love

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1. lovelyadjective

   Synonyms:
   charming, delightful, delectable, amiable, pleasing

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1. List of paraphrases for "lovely":

   charming, adorable, beautiful, nice, pretty, lovable, cute, delightful, ravishing, enchanting, wonderful, sweet, delicious, handsome, belle, gorgeous, loveable, loverly, exquisite, fine, good-looking, pleasant, magnificent, jolie, iovely

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How to use LOVELY in a sentence?

1. Lamar Odom:

   I just come to fall in love with her, she's a sweet, loving, lovely young girl. I think she's a rock. She's the best thing that ever happened (to Odom).

2. Woody Allen, Without Feathers:

   A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

3. Bill Mott:

   In all the years I did the Queen's Birthday Parade, it was Her Majesty the Queen there. To not have Her Majesty arriving was poignant and the fact that she went out onto the balcony was lovely, i thought in my heart, how many more times am I going to see Her Majesty like that? It was quite sad for a lot of reasons. I know the Platinum Jubilee is meant to be a wonderful occasion and something to mark 70 years, but it was tinged with sadness for me.

4. Lauri Scher:

   I'm sure at one time in his life he was a very lovely, caring young man, what he turned into obviously was -- we know what he turned into. He turned into a monster. Why did that happen? We'll never know.

5. Joyce Kilmer:

   I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.