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Excellent is a related term of lovely.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between excellent and lovely

is that excellent is (obsolete) excellently while lovely is (obsolete) loving, filled with love.

As adjectives the difference between excellent and lovely

is that excellent is of the highest quality; splendid while lovely is beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner or lovely can be worthy to be praised.

As an adverb excellent

is (obsolete) excellently.

As a noun lovely is

an attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.

excellent

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Of the highest quality; splendid.
  • *
  • *:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
  • Exceptionally good of its kind.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
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  • Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
  • *(David Hume) (1711-1776)
  • *:an excellent hypocrite
  • *(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
  • *:Their sorrows are most excellent .
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * excellence * excellently * excellentness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Excellently.
  • *, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
  • Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

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    lovely

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lovely, luvelich, lufli, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
  • It's a lovely day and the sun is shining.
    The music box plays a lovely melody.
    The castle garden enchants visitors with its lovely blooms.
  • * Robert of Brunne
  • Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely .
  • Very nice, wonderful.
  • It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend.
  • (obsolete) Inspiring love or friendship; amiable.
  • * Shakespeare
  • a most lovely gentlemanlike man
  • (obsolete) Loving, filled with love.
  • * Chaucer
  • Many a lovely look on them he cast.
  • * Shakespeare
  • a lovely kiss
    Synonyms
    * lovable * lovesome * loving
    Derived terms
    * lovelily * loveliness

    Noun

    (lovelies)
  • An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.
  • a calendar depicting young lovelies in bikinis
  • Goodbye, my lovely .
  • A lovely object. (rfex)
  • Synonyms
    * pretty, darling

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lovely, loflik, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Worthy to be praised.
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