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Unlovely vs Unlovable - What's the difference?

unlovely | unlovable |

As adjectives the difference between unlovely and unlovable

is that unlovely is unattractive, ugly while unlovable is not lovable.

unlovely

English

Adjective

(er)
  • unattractive, ugly
  • * 2005 , Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman , HarperCollins, page 6 [http://books.google.com/books?id=mSlgn03zAroC&pg=PT11&dq=simon+winchester+unlovely&hl=en&ei=WCI8TsbBCcGGsgKy2-T2Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false]:
    • Even today Lambeth is a singularly unlovely part of the British capital, jammed anonymously between the great fan of roads and railway lines that take commuters in and out of the city center from the southern counties.

    unlovable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not lovable.
    • English words suffixed with -able