English word
Lovely
Definitions
adjective
- delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace : attractive
- grand, swell
- eliciting love by moral or ideal worth
- lovableobsolete
Synonyms for lovely
Closest evidence-backed alternatives.
Synonyms by context
(of a person) Very beautiful or attractive
adjective
(of a place or location) Pleasingly beautiful in appearance
adjective
- picturesque
- panoramic
- scenic
- striking
- grand
- magnificent
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
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