Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having characteristics that attract love or affection.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worthy of love; inviting love; winning; amiable. Also
loveable . - Praiseworthy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Inspiring
love oraffection .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having characteristics that attract love or affection
Etymologies
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Examples
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By this point, we're liable to transform what we call our lovable land of music known as
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Make a lot of them really funny, relatable, and/or just plain lovable and charming.
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That blending of macabre with the lovable is executed very well in the film.
Rabid Rewind: 9 2010
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That blending of macabre with the lovable is executed very well in the film.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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Where did that term lovable loser come from, I wonder?
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Stanley Cup Final for the History Books 2010
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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.
April 17th, 2005 2005
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The boy, hapless but lovable, is drawn with exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes.
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A type at once grotesque and lovable is the cabalist of Astarac.
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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.
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In some circles, the word lovable would and should never be applied to blacks or gays.
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