lovely

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty. informal
    — a calendar depicting young lovelies in bikinis
  2. Term of fond address.
    — Goodbye, my lovely.
  3. A lovely object.
    — In Montréal, the summer months bring in a huge variety of fruits and vegetables and this is the time to preserve them. Preserving can also refer to the storage of these fiber and vitamin rich lovelies.
形容词 adj.
  1. Delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace.
    — It's a lovely day and the sun is shining.
  2. Worthy of praise. archaic
    — And so he is in the eyes of all who live to his praise. To them every attribute of God is lovely. The holiness and purity of his nature is most lovely to them.
  3. Nice; wonderful.
    — It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend.
  4. Inspiring love or friendship; amiable. obsolete
    — a most lovely gentlemanlike man
  5. Loving, filled with love. obsolete
    — seal the title with a lovely kiss
副词 adv.
  1. In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully. informal
    — She's not everyone's cup of tea, what with the way she speaks her mind and doesn't always do her hair in the morning, but she scrubs up lovely.

词形变化

lovelier comparative loveliest superlative lovelies plural more lovely comparative most lovely superlative lovelier comparative more lovely comparative loveliest superlative most lovely superlative

词汇关系

近义词
beautiful charming lovable lovesome loving
衍生词
everything in the garden is lovely lovelify lovelily loveliness lovely and Lovely Banks lovely fairywren lovely fir lovely jubbly lovely weather for ducks unlovely what a lovely day
相关词
loverly lovingly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lovely, luvelich, lufli, from Old English luflīċ, luflīc (“amiable, loving, lovable”), equivalent to love + -ly.
词源 2
From Middle English lovely, luveliche, from Old English luflīċe (“lovingly, amiably, kindly, dearly, with good will or love, willingly”), equivalent to love + -ly.
词源 3
From Middle English lofly, lovely (“praiseworthy; laudatory”), equivalent to lofe + -ly. Cognate with Dutch loffelijk (“laudable, praiseworthy”), German löblich (“commendable, laudable, praiseworthy”), Swedish lovlig (“permissible”). More at lofe, love.
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