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Lovely vs Null - What's the difference?

lovely | null |

As nouns the difference between lovely and null

is that lovely is an attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

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

    *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----