Half rhyme or imperfect rhyme, sometimes called near-rhyme, lazy rhyme, or slant rhyme, is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds.

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually, exactly the same sound) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Furthermore, the word rhyme has come to be sometimes used as a shorthand term for any brief poem, such as a nursery rhyme or Balliol rhyme.

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words pureadjective. Antonyms: impure. Synonyms: chaste, virtuous, innocent, undefiled, unpolluted, inviolated, unspotted, immaculate, virgin, incorrupt, impeccable, inviolable, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, simple, refined, genuine, uncontaminated.

1 : delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace : attractive She looks lovely in that dress. 2 : grand, swell what a lovely morning. 3 : eliciting love by moral or ideal worth A lovely woman who loves him for himself, not for his money.

From the Old English luflic “affectionate, loveable,” comes lovely, an adjective that describes a person’s or thing’s attractiveness. Find the word love in there — it’s something so attractive you can’t help but love it. Lovely can also refer to something delightful.

Lovely sentence example

1. You have a lovely smile.
2. I looked my lovely future wife in the eye.
3. There is a lovely beach that stretches miles along the blue Atlantic.
4. I had many lovely things for Christmas.
5. Father will buy me a lovely new watch.
6. Lovely to hear from you, especially today.

When used as adjectives, beautiful means attractive and possessing beauty, whereas lovely means beautiful. Lovely is also noun with the meaning: an attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty. Lovely is also adverb with the meaning: in a lovely fashion or manner.

lovely

• alluring.
• delightful.
• engaging.
• pleasant.
• pleasing.
• splendid.
• stunning.
• sweet.

Some common synonyms of lovely are beautiful, comely, fair, handsome, and pretty. While all these words mean “exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure,” lovely is close to beautiful but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite.

Beautiful is an adjective used to describe someone or something that is aesthetically pleasing. That person or item can please the mind, senses, and the eyes too. Gorgeous, on the other hand, refers to something or someone who is strikingly stunning, magnificent, good-looking, or wonderful from the outside.