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Lovely vs Radian - What's the difference?

lovely | radian |

As nouns the difference between lovely and radian

is that lovely is an attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty while radian is radian.

As an adjective lovely

is beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner or lovely can be worthy to be praised.

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.
  • Anagrams

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    radian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad
  • Derived terms

    * steradian

    See also

    * degree * gradian

    Anagrams

    * *