different between lovely vs resplendent

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?v?l?, IPA^(key): /?l?vli/

Etymology 1

From Middle English lovely, luvelich, lufli, from Old English lufl?c (“amiable, loving, lovable”), equivalent to love +? -ly.

Adjective

lovely (comparative lovelier, superlative loveliest)

1. Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
   • 1915, Herman Cyril McNeile, The Lieutenant and Others

     His pink coat was lovely
2. Very nice, wonderful.
3. (obsolete) Inspiring love or friendship; amiable.
4. (obsolete) Loving, filled with love.

Synonyms

• beautiful
• charming
• lovable
• lovesome
• loving
• See also Thesaurus:beautiful

Derived terms

• lovelily
• loveliness
• unlovely

Related terms

• loverly
• lovingly

Translations

Adverb

lovely (comparative more lovely, superlative most lovely)

1. (informal) In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully.

Noun

lovely (plural lovelies)

1. (informal) An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.

   Synonyms: pretty, darling

2. Term of fond address.
3. A lovely object.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lovely, loveli, lofli, lovelike, lovelic (“praiseworthy; laudatory”), equivalent to lofe +? -ly. Cognate with Dutch loffelijk (“laudable, praiseworthy”), German löblich (“commendable, laudable, praiseworthy”), Swedish lovlig (“permissible”). More at lofe, love.

Adjective

lovely (comparative lovelier or more lovely, superlative loveliest or most lovely)

1. (archaic) Worthy of praise.

Anagrams

• volley

Middle English

Adjective

lovely

1. lovely: loving, filled with love

   • Many a lovely loke on them he cast.

English

Alternative forms

• resplendant (obsolete)

Etymology

From the obsolete sense of the English verb splendish (“to shine”), from Latin splendere (“to shine”), or from resplend +? -ent, from Latin resplendere.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /???spl?n.d?nt/

Adjective

resplendent (comparative more resplendent, superlative most resplendent)

1. Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
2. (mathematics) Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.

Related terms

• resplend
• splendid
• splendor

Translations

See also

• resplendid (misspelling)

Latin

Verb

resplendent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of resplende?