What's the difference between attractive and lovely?

Attractive


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.
  • (a.) Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.
  • (n.) That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Osteoporosis and its treatment have attracted much attention in recent years, especially since the widespread recognition of its association with the menopause.
  • (2) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
  • (3) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
  • (4) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
  • (5) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
  • (6) Synthetic N-formylmethionyl peptides are chemotactic attractants for human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
  • (7) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
  • (8) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
  • (9) A viral aetiology for this group of diseases remains an attractive but unsubstantiated hypothesis.
  • (10) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
  • (11) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
  • (12) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
  • (13) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
  • (14) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
  • (15) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
  • (16) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
  • (17) Cuadrilla's admission comes after more than a fortnight's protests at the Balcombe site, which have attracted international attention.
  • (18) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
  • (19) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
  • (20) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.

Lovely


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
  • (superl.) Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
  • (superl.) Loving; tender.
  • (superl.) Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.
  • (adv.) In a manner to please, or to excite love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
  • (4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
  • (5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
  • (10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
  • (11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
  • (12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
  • (17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.