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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  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.

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lovely

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

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

Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 3 votes

  1. cover girl, pin-up, lovelyadjective

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

    Antonyms:
    hateful, ugly

    Synonyms:
    pin-up, cover girl

  2. lovelyadjective

    appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

    Antonyms:
    hateful, ugly

    Synonyms:
    endearing, adorable

  3. adorable, endearing, lovelyadjective

    lovable especially in a childlike or naive way

    Antonyms:
    hateful, ugly

    Synonyms:
    endearing, adorable

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lovelyadjective

    Synonyms:
    charming, delightful, delectable, amiable, pleasing

How to use lovely in a sentence?

  1. Elizabeth Lodge:

    My life in Australia was( comfortable) because of the lovely treatment you all provided to me, to each and every Bhutanese in Australia who contributed for the future of my kids, I will ever remain grateful for such generosity. Thank you one and all.

  2. Joyce Kilmer:

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

  3. Peter McWilliams:

    Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

  4. Eugene Purvis:

    It could be the demise of the place, redcar was a lovely place. If you go on the Internet and look through old photographs, it was a lovely place. If you see any photographs now it's decimated.

  5. 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.

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#41434crusty
#45066unattractive
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#50489dogged
#50897homely
#55808disagreeable
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#60813gruff
#86369morose
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#149185churlish
#212513unlovely
#220506unlovable
#251752crabbed

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