Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having characteristics that attract love or affection.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Worthy of love; inviting love; winning; amiable. Also loveable.
- Praiseworthy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having characteristics that attract love or affection
Etymologies
- love + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“By this point, we're liable to transform what we call our lovable land of music known as”
“That blending of macabre with the lovable is executed very well in the film.”
“Make a lot of them really funny, relatable, and/or just plain lovable and charming.”
“Where did that term lovable loser come from, I wonder?”
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“But then, a certain lovable someone (who prefers to remain anonymous) bought me a darling new digital camera -- right around the time that some damn fool went and hooked me up with a Flickr account ... and then somebody else was kind enough to -- out of the blue -- set me up with a paid Flickr account.”
“The boy, hapless but lovable, is drawn with exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes.”
“A type at once grotesque and lovable is the cabalist of Astarac.”
“But what makes Selma Lagerlöf's writings so lovable is that we always seem to hear in them an echo of the most peculiar, the strongest, and the best things that have ever moved the soul of the Swedish people.”
“In some circles, the word lovable would and should never be applied to blacks or gays.”
“I don't feel like going into it, but at least I've never tried, consciously or otherwise, to turn Jesus into St. Francis of Assisi to make him more 'lovable' - which is exactly what ninety-eight percent of the Christian world has always insisted on doing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lovable’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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-bles
fine find endings
able, amble, bable, cable, cible, coble, dable, fable, gable, gible, tible, table and 241 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Words suggested in response to Funk's...
In response to Wilfred J. Funk's "ten most beautiful words in the English language" list of 1932.
beer, rum, rye, sauterne, sherry, brandy, bourbon, Scotch, champagne, cocktail, lyric, serenity and 137 more...
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-able
able to; capable of being; worthy of being; having qualities of; tending to
durable, drinkable, lovable, comfortable, peaceable, potable
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Weekly list(30-05/09/2010)
settle, irritate, calm, adorable, affectionate, gentle, loyal, devoted, destructive, filthy, gullible, mean and 5 more...
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Names of Actual Pets I Have Known
With thanks to AbraxasZugzwang for the Aminals list.
je ne sais quoi, frito, stellaluna, stretch, zebedee, caspian wimblewether, shakazulu, finbar, elliott, captain crustacean, filbert, pfeffer and 33 more...
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