lovely

Forms

1.Delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace.
- The music box plays a lovely melody.
- The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
- It's a lovely day and the sun is shining.
2.Nice; wonderful.
- It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend.
- It is a lovely night, and why should we not prolong our ride a little?"

1.Term of fond address.
- But where do you go to my lovely / When you're alone in your bed?
2.An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.(informal)
- Tom Bower’s 2024 book, The House of Beckham, painted a rather snide portrait of the marriage, in which Beckham is constantly surrounded by lovelies, and Victoria is in a constant huff about it.
3.A lovely object.
- May Bell ironed the last ruffle and then hung the dress in the wardrobe next to her other lovelies.
- In Montréal, the summer months bring in a huge variety of fruits and vegetables and this is the time to preserve them. Preserving can also refer to the storage of these fiber and vitamin rich lovelies.

1.In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully.(informal)
- She's not everyone's cup of tea, what with the way she speaks her mind and doesn't always do her hair in the morning, but she scrubs up lovely.

Uncommon· #2671

From Middle English lovely, luvelich, lufli

From Old English luflīċ, luflīc (“amiable, loving, lovable”), equivalent to love + -ly.