lovable
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
/ˈlʌvəbəl/
Definition of lovable
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Inspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute.
“In short, the old town—the lovablest, old-timiest, easy-goingest old town that ever was—sits there by the River, hugging its traditions, and hoarding its stories, of which it has enough to make a new Thousand and One Nights.”
“Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time.”
““[…] You’ll let Jims come here often, won’t you? I love him dearly.” / “No doubt you do, miss, for a lovabler child I never did see.[…]””
“The wonder of the women of the world together, moya! And the lovablest Lima since Ineen MacCormick MacCoort MacConn O’Puckins MacKundred.”
“In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English lovable, loveable, luffeabill, lufabul, equivalent to love + -able.
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