Lovely /(?)/

Love·ly

Lovely

a.
  1. Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
    Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely.
    — Robert of Brunne.
    If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers.
  2. Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
    A most lovely gentlemanlike man.
  3. Loving; tender. [Obs.]
    Many a lovely look on them he cast.
  4. Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.
    Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns.

Lovely

adv.
  1. In a manner to please, or to excite love. [Obs. or R.]