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love‧ly S1 W3 /ˈlʌvli/ adjective (comparative lovelier, superlative loveliest)
[Word Family: adjective: lovable ≠ UNLOVABLE, loveless, lovely, loving, unloved; noun: love, lover, loveliness., lovey; verb: love; adverb: lovingly]
1. especially British English beautiful or attractive:
　 ▪ She had a lovely face.
　 ▪ What a lovely house!
　 ▪ You look lovely in that dress.
　 ▪ He was a lovely little boy.
　 ▪ What a lovely day!

2. spoken especially British English very pleasant, enjoyable, or good:
　 ▪ Thank you for a lovely evening.
　 ▪ That was a lovely cup of tea.

3. informal especially British English friendly and pleasant:
　 ▪ Richard’s a lovely person.

4. British English spoken used to say that something is not at all enjoyable or good:
　 ▪ ‘The cat threw up all over the carpet!’ ‘Lovely!’
　 ▪ You’ve made a lovely mess in here.

5. lovely and warm/fresh/clean etc
British English spoken used to emphasize how good something is:
　 ▪ This bread’s lovely and fresh.

6. British English spoken used to show that you are pleased with something:
　 ▪ Push it right across. That’s it, lovely.

—loveliness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beautiful/lovely/glorious day (=with very nice weather)
▪ It was a beautiful day yesterday, wasn’t it?
a beautiful/lovely/magnificent setting
▪ The event takes place in the magnificent setting of Bramham Park.
a nice/lovely/happy day (=enjoyable)
▪ We’ve had a lovely day at the beach.
a nice/pleasant/lovely surprise
▪ It’s a lovely surprise to see you.
a sweet/pretty/lovely melody (=pleasant)
▪ The pianist played a sweet melody.
beautiful/lovely
▪ The scenery was beautiful and the people were really friendly.
good/lovely/beautiful
▪ He wrote, in his lovely handwriting, a letter asking Ramsey to visit him.
good/nice/lovely (=not wet)
▪ We’ll go out if the weather is good.
lovely/pretty/beautiful
▪ They admired the lovely flowers in the garden.
nice/pleasant/lovely
▪ There was a lovely smell of fresh coffee.
they make a lovely couple (=look very attractive together/suit each other well)
▪ You two would make a lovely couple.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
as
▪ I've honestly never met anyone half as lovely as you.
▪ For many years she lay in the coffin, but strangely remained as lovely as if she were still alive.
▪ The garden was as lovely as ever.
how
▪ Look how lovely she is, like a flower.
▪ I had never realized how lovely they were, how kind, how unfailingly polite.
▪ They even shared cream cakes and tea from a flask at half-time. How lovely Bangor folk are!
▪ You can't imagine how lovely she was.
▪ Travis told us how lovely you were.
▪ Imagine how lovely it would be - you could take the whole family and make a day of it.
▪ Do you know how lovely you are?
▪ It was good to be there. How lovely are thy courts, O Lord.
most
▪ It is a most lovely valley area, extending to over forty acres.
▪ All had their pages bring and present her with most lovely things, robes and jewels and golden chains.
▪ Here was a most lovely situation, a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula.
▪ They saw instead a most lovely milk-white hind springing into the forest.
▪ All the most lovely words of love and passion could not express one tenth of what I feel for you.
▪ She took from a chest a most lovely robe.
▪ They had the finest food, the finest way of living, the most lovely gardens, the finest dress.
really
▪ You can turn them up to the most incredible volume and strum them very lightly, and you get a really lovely sound.
▪ She was sweet, she was really lovely.
▪ It was really lovely to see how everyone helped everyone else.
▪ They can be temperamental in the press, but look really lovely when pressed successfully.
▪ To the east of Bagnères is a really lovely piece of country, not to be ignored.
▪ It overlooks the tiny village of Montelovesco and offers some really lovely views of the hills of Umbria.
▪ There are some really lovely places to explore, including some guided walks organised by the Tourist Office.
▪ She's a really lovely woman but she's not very bright about things like this.
so
▪ Quite taken with them she was, so lovely to look at, him so fair, her so dark.
▪ She must go to him looking so lovely that he could not resist her.
▪ She, of course, becomes agitated and it's so lovely to watch full ripe bosoms rise and fall!
▪ Also, Sunday lunches, especially in the summer, are so lovely and relaxed.
▪ It's so lovely to see you!
▪ The naming ceremony is so lovely.
▪ Of course, your house is so lovely and full of life.
very
▪ Glen Muick is very lovely with roaming red deer, beautiful waterfalls, and a peaceful loch.
▪ The weather was perfect all the while we were there, the evenings very lovely, moonlight softened by fog.
▪ You're a very lovely girl.
▪ I knew her on Long Island when she was a girl. Very lovely child.
▪ She is here, she is unmarried, she is still very lovely - but I don't love her.
▪ It was all very slow, very lovely, the glow burning and the darkness coming and the water moving.
▪ She was a very lovely but very unhappy woman.
▪ However, single or limited colour schemes can be very lovely and a popular addition to the garden.
NOUN
day
▪ In these lovely days, still unspoilt by materialism and television, there was always a singer.
▪ I just sat, looking at the lovely day, glad the train was in no hurry.
▪ They all came in, they d had a lovely day shopping.
▪ It was the loveliest day imaginable now that she knew the name of Angel's foster parents.
▪ It was a shame to waste such a lovely day sitting indoors, he announced.
▪ We've had a lovely day, haven't we Arthur?
▪ It's a lovely day, isn't it?
evening
▪ It was one of those still, lovely evenings that you sometimes get in October.
▪ It's been a lovely evening.
▪ They spent lovely evenings and nights together.
▪ Eventually we decided that, as it was such a lovely evening, we'd stroll round the village.
▪ It had been such a lovely evening.
face
▪ His eyes appraised her face, a lovely face, a sad face - because of him.
▪ Her lovely face in the candlelight, the soft pitch of her voice as she sang him to sleep.
▪ The sun shone on her lovely face and hair.
▪ Through the long slow hours of darkness he saw her lovely face and forgot that she did not love him.
▪ If only he could see her, speak to her, look into her lovely face.
▪ But as I looked into her lovely face, I knew I could not live with the lie.
▪ What a shape, what a neck, what a hand, and what a bloom on that lovely face!
garden
▪ Service is friendly and laid-back and there's a lovely garden, with tables for alfresco eating.
▪ Newby Hall is a famous Adam House with a lovely garden with adventure park for children.
▪ Redlands Here you can relax in a pine lodge overlooking a lovely garden, or sun yourself on the semi-circular sun terrace.
▪ No sirens or bombs, and a lovely garden, full of flowers.
▪ There is a swimming pool with a sun terrace, pool bar, free deckchairs and deckchairs all set in lovely gardens.
▪ Dundalk station, with its lovely garden, stood at the edge of town, close to the enormous Harp Lager brewery.
▪ She knew every inch of its twisting rambling passageways, every tree in its old lovely garden.
▪ Friendly service and a lovely garden.
girl
▪ You're a very lovely girl.
▪ She was the loveliest girl that I'd ever seen in my life, and her voice was like music.
▪ Marilyn's a lovely girl and you're a lucky man.
▪ I see you've met one of our loveliest girls.
▪ That evening I visited the house, and met Clara, a lovely girl, obviously in love with Herbert.
▪ It would be far more sensible to concentrate his thoughts on the lovely girl at his side.
▪ We know about the lovely girls who model, they look wonderful in everything, but how about some one like Ma Larkin?
house
▪ And buying a lovely house of your own and sending the children to good schools.
▪ Then the boy; then this lovely house to come back to, and a job waiting for me.
▪ It's a lovely house, it's a lovely place.
▪ Visitors found it a lovely house, full of air and hospitality.
▪ A lovely house Syon, whose occupants tended the sick and brought about many a cure.
▪ The former school building is now converted to a lovely house.
lady
▪ I remember a lovely lady who attended my slimming club years ago.
▪ She is a lovely lady as well as a great physio, and we chatted away as she worked on my legs.
man
▪ Oh, he was a lovely man!
▪ She insisted she'd got a lovely man for me.
▪ He's a lovely man, and he and my son go everywhere together.
▪ He was a lovely man, one in a million.
place
▪ It's a lovely place with excellent facilities.
▪ And a lovely place it is, too, Jack.
▪ This a lovely place to get away from the pressures of everyday life under the care of the owner and his friendly staff.
▪ Both of them were smiling, the world a bright and lovely place.
▪ They had been wonderfully blessed to have had so long in this lovely place.
▪ You might take an unexpected turning just because it feels right, and discover a lovely place to eat.
▪ These damaging pests have found that your compost bin is a lovely place to hide and shelter.
time
▪ I went and had a lovely time.
▪ She took me to meet the Fellowship she helps to lead and we had a lovely time of worship together.
▪ We had a lovely time filming it in Yorkshire.
▪ He had a lovely time, you could tell by the way he twitched.
▪ Enclosed is a cheque for £84-00, as arranged, I trust you have all had a lovely time on holiday.
▪ I go out all day to college having a lovely time while you stay at home making yourself ill.
▪ And what a lovely time that was.
▪ We two were the youngest in the family and had lovely times together.
view
▪ Drinks are served in the dining room or on the terrace which offers lovely views across the lake.
▪ One provides hot foot - at a gentle pace from a cliff top site with lovely views.
▪ The hotel is located in the middle of the pedestrian area yet all the rooms are quiet and have lovely views.
▪ There are lovely views of the Inland Ionian islands through the beautifully kept garden.
▪ Artists and poets have never tired of its historic buildings and artisan shops, richly wooded hills and lovely views.
▪ From the hacienda and from the lovely view that her balcony gave of the mountains they had seemed quite close.
▪ Each features a balcony with lovely views.
woman
▪ Not hers but his and the lovely woman he lived with but had no intention of marrying - yet, that was.
▪ I had a girl friend who went there, a lovely woman.
▪ You have the privilege of having found a lovely woman, privileged and - you know this better than I do unique.
▪ Clicking on any category brings up a bevy of lovely women.
▪ How you corrupted a young and lovely woman ... and subjected her to the most shatteringly depraved treatment.
▪ She was lovely, and lovely women ought not to intrude into the lives of lonely men.
▪ She's a really lovely woman but she's not very bright about things like this.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anna's perfume smells lovely.
▪ Claire was young and lovely, but rather shy.
▪ Don't the Schultz sisters look lovely?
▪ He told his wife that evening that she had never looked lovelier.
▪ Her hair's a lovely shade of red.
▪ It was a lovely big house with a big garden out the back.
▪ It would be lovely to see you again.
▪ Old Dr Macintosh was a lovely man.
▪ Rita's a lovely young girl.
▪ Rosie's a lovely baby.
▪ Thank you for the lovely birthday present.
▪ The dress was such a lovely colour, a deep blue that really suited her.
▪ The garden was looking lovely.
▪ The hills will be lovely at this time of year.
▪ The staff at the hotel were lovely - so helpful and polite.
▪ They've got a lovely big house in the country.
▪ They've got three lovely kids.
▪ We had a lovely time at the beach.
▪ What a lovely baby!
▪ You are so lucky to live here with all this lovely countryside around you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Billie the person was lovely and unscathed.
▪ From Leipzig to Dresden, with the gentle Elbe flowing between, this is a lovely state to get into.
▪ From Thaxted we went to a lovely old thatched pub called the Ashtree at Burton End.
▪ Now my lovely tomatoes are beginning to disappear.
▪ There are lovely views of the Inland Ionian islands through the beautifully kept garden.
▪ There was a lovely picture of him on telly last night peering woefully over the fence dressed in snazzy suit.