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lovelier

UK/ˈlʌv.li.ə(ɹ)/US/ˈlʌv.li.ə(ɹ)/
adjectiveB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,013 of 15,258leans spoken

Lovelier means more beautiful or more pleasing. Lovelier than the first, gets lovelier, lovelier still.

It is the comparative of lovely, with the y turning to i as it does in prettier and happier. Lovely is warm and British and covers everything from a face to a cup of tea, which is why lovelier can be said of almost anything. Note loveliest; and that lovely is love plus -ly.

Definitions of lovelier

  1. 1adjectivelovelierMore beautiful or more pleasing.B1+

    “The garden looks even lovelier in spring, when all the flowers are out.”

lovelier is a comparison of beauty.

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lovelier in the wild

  • Queen Victoria spent a week at Inverlochy during an 1873 visit to Balmoral, remarking "I never saw a lovelier or more romantic spot".

    Inverlochy Castle Hotel

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.