Definitions for Lovely

Lovely love·ly

Spelling: [luhv-lee]
IPA: /ˈlʌv li/

Lovely is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Lovely (ellovy).

Definitions for Lovely

noun

  1. Informal. a beautiful woman, especially a show girl.
  2. any person or thing that is pleasing, highly satisfying, or the like:

adverb

  1. Nonstandard. very well; splendidly.

adjective

  1. charmingly or exquisitely beautiful:
  2. having a beauty that appeals to the heart or mind as well as to the eye, as a person or a face.
  3. delightful; highly pleasing:
  4. of a great moral or spiritual beauty:

Origin of Lovely

before 900; Middle English luvelich, Old English luflīc amiable. See love, -ly

Examples for Lovely

When he does, here is a gentleness in his voice, a reflective and lovely quality that no movie he has been in has ever captured.

Never is the city so lovely as in this month of May, when all the trees are in the fullness of their foliage.

From reports it must once have been a lovely old city with stone houses and a medieval quarter.

Philothea's tall figure was a lovely union of majesty and grace.

The Daily Beast spoke with the lovely actress about the holiday movie, in theaters Christmas Day, and much more.

Did he tell you how to make a lovely asparagus short-cake or something?

Was it Shakespeare, in mad pursuit of a lovely boy and that voluptuous Dark Lady?

Note: The egg wash both affixes the pastry to the dish and makes a lovely browned crust.

Her first thought was of the lovely things of the country and the joy of them.

That graceful maiden is too lovely for any destiny meaner than a royal marriage.

Word Value for Lovely
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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