lovely
Usage
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Something or someone that is lovely is attractive in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. That which is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower.
Example Sentences
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"It's a kind of family - it's the Hamnet family and we all made the film together and everybody has been recognised which is just really, really lovely."
From BBC
"The world is a rough place at the moment, and it's lovely to have something that is just for the sake of fun," said Selkirk.
From Barron's
It’s a lovely and generous gesture from the Golden Globes.
From Los Angeles Times
"I booked into a B&B. The only thing around me was fields and cows and the loveliest woman running this B&B," she said.
From BBC
Of Infiniti, Grace notes, “She was just lovely, and she made my job really easy, just looking at her” trying to act tough, “like you don’t even know you’re a baby.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
