English word

Lovely

Definitions

adjective

  1. delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace : attractive
  2. grand, swell
  3. eliciting love by moral or ideal worth
  4. lovableobsolete

Synonyms for lovely

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Synonyms by context

(of a person) Very beautiful or attractive

adjective

Very pleasant or enjoyable

adjective

(of a place or location) Pleasingly beautiful in appearance

adjective

An eye-catching person or thing

noun

  • eyeful
  • beauty
  • stunner
  • knockout
  • goddess
  • babe
  • honey
  • fox
  • cutie
  • cutey

Antonyms for lovely

(of a person) Opposite of very beautiful or attractive

  • ugly
  • hideous
  • unattractive
  • unbeautiful
  • unhandsome
  • unpretty
  • plain
  • unlovely
  • grotesque
  • ordinary

Opposite of very pleasant or enjoyable

(of a place or location) Opposite of pleasingly beautiful in appearance

  • deformed
  • abnormal
  • freaky
  • harsh
  • jarring
  • malformed

Opposite of an eye-catching person or thing

  • eyesore
  • reality
  • dog
  • fact
  • actuality

Phrases

  • a sight for sore eyes
  • as nice as pie
  • as pure as the driven snow
  • as ugly as sin
  • doll face
  • drawing attention
  • extremely attractive
  • good looking
  • in good taste
  • larger than life
  • no great shakes
  • not appealing
  • physically attractive
  • sexually attractive
  • short on looks
  • very nice
  • well bred
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