Difference between Lovable and Lovely

What is the difference between Lovable and Lovely?

Lovable as an adjective is inspiring love or affection. while Lovely as an adjective is inspiring actual love

Lovable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Inspiring love or affection.

Example sentence: Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.

Lovely

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.A lovely object

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Inspiring actual loveEvoking love-like, happy emotions by aesthetic or similar endearing qualities.Very nice, wonderful in a general sense.Loving, filled with love

Example sentence: Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

We hope you now know whether to use Lovable or Lovely in your sentence.

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