Difference between Lovely and Lovable

What is the difference between Lovely and Lovable?

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

Lovely

Part of speech: noun

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

Part of speech: adjective

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

Example sentence: Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Lovable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Inspiring love or affection.

Example sentence: You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.

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

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