lovely
/ˈlʌvli/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈlʌvli/
lovely
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short u vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
lo - ve - ly -> lovely
Myanmar meaning
(adj) လှသော။ ချစ်စရာကောင်းသော။ နှစ်သက်ဖွယ်ဖြစ်သော။ ရွှင်မြူးဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ အရသာရှိသော။ သာယာကြည်နူးဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ ဆွဆောင်သော။ ပျော်မြူးစရာကောင်းသော။
Full entry
lovely / 'lʌvli / adj (-ier, -iest )
၁။ လှသော။ ချစ်စရာကောင်းသော။ နှစ်သက်ဖွယ်ဖြစ်သော။ ရွှင်မြူးဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။
a lovely view / house / woman ❍ lovely hair / weather / music.
၂။ (infml ) အရသာရှိသော။ သာယာကြည်နူးဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ ဆွဲဆောင်သော။ ပျော်မြူးစရာကောင်းသော။
a lovely dinner/time/story ❍ It’s lovely and warm (ie pleasant because warm) in here. ❍ Isn’t it a lovely day? ❍ NICE loveliness n [U]
More examples
- A city surrounded by lovely countryside
- She had lovely hair.
- We’ve had a lovely evening.
- What a lovely surprise!
- [it’s lovely to do something] : It’s lovely to see you again.
- [it’s lovely doing something] : It’s lovely living so close to the sea.
- Can I borrow your pen? Lovely, thanks.
- Just put it there. That’s lovely.
- ‘We’ll see you later.’ ‘Lovely.’
- Oh, lovely! Dirt all over the floor!
- He’s a lovely little boy.
- She wrote me a lovely letter when my grandfather died.
- It was lovely of her to offer to help.
Synonyms
beautiful, attractive, pretty, good-looking, gorgeous, exquisite, charming, divine, handsome, Venus, admirable, adorable, agreeable, alluring, amiable, beaut, beauteous, bewitching, captivating, charming; agreeable, comely, cynosure, dainty, dazzler, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, dreamboat, enchanting, engaging, enjoyable, eyeful, fair, fetching, fine, good, good-looker, graceful, gratifying, head turner, knockout, looker, lovesome, nice, paragon, peach, perfect, picture, pleasant, pleasing, pulchritudinous, rare, scrumptious, splendid, stunner, stunning, sublimation, superb, sweet, winning, wonderful
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