lovely

Other forms of lovely

plural

lovelies·

comparative or superlative

lovelier

comparative or superlative

loveliest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lovely

What does lovely mean?

lovely means "appealing to the emotions as well as the eye". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lovely?

lovely has 2 syllables: lovel-y. The stress falls on "lovel". In IPA it is /ˈlʌvli/.

What is another word for lovely?

Close synonyms include adorable, endearing, cover girl, pin-up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lovely a common word?

lovely is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.