Lovely vs Stunning - What's the difference?
lovely | stunning |
Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
* Robert of Brunne
Very nice, wonderful.
(obsolete) Inspiring love or friendship; amiable.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Loving, filled with love.
* Chaucer
* Shakespeare
An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.
A lovely object. (rfex)
Worthy to be praised.
Having an effect that stuns.
Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.
Amazing (very good).
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As adjectives the difference between lovely and stunning
is that lovely is beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner while stunning is having an effect that stuns.As a noun lovely
is an attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.As a verb stunning is
present participle of lang=en.lovely
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lovely, luvelich, lufli, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- 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.
- Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely .
- It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend.
- a most lovely gentlemanlike man
- Many a lovely look on them he cast.
- a lovely kiss
Synonyms
* lovable * lovesome * lovingDerived terms
* lovelily * lovelinessNoun
(lovelies)- a calendar depicting young lovelies in bikinis
- Goodbye, my lovely .
Synonyms
* pretty, darlingEtymology 2
From (etyl) lovely, loflik, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Anagrams
*stunning
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.
- That woman is stunning !
- The film was stunning .
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