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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lovable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ He gave his laugh, his rich, his million-dollar laugh, reluctant, like all the most lovable laughter.
▪ He is at his most Howard-like, his funniest and most lovable.
▪ Philip Yorke, who had inherited the house unexpectedly from his reclusive brother, was a most lovable man.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Crawford is best known to television audiences as a lovable idiot.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
▪ Franz, the egregiously angry Detective Andy Sipowicz, was his usual unforgivable / lovable self times 10.
▪ How lovable we are - or so the myth goes - is tightly interwoven with how beautiful we are.
▪ Lysander, her hero, is a lovable thicko who isn't even terribly proficient in bed.
▪ There was something lovable about that shape.
▪ What is it about some women that makes them find killers so lovable?
▪ What the future entails is some very contemporary music slipped into concerts featuring lovable old favorites.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lovable

Lovable \Lov"a*ble\, a. Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.

Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat.
--Tennyson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lovable

also loveable, mid-14c., from love (v.) + -able. Related: Lovably.

Wiktionary
lovable

a. Inspiring love or affection. alt. Inspiring love or affection.

WordNet
lovable

adj. having characteristics that attract love or affection; "a mischievous but lovable child" [syn: loveable] [ant: hateful]

Usage examples of "lovable".

Anna thought, that this kindly, lovable benefactress should have that one flaw: she would never let her forget that she had an obstacle to surmount, that there would always be this obstacle, but it was not surmountable.

And in the special film did Poopy Panda appear enhaloed, and the talented kid performers did do him worship, and Otto Clodd did trip over his feet whilst kneeling, and Jackie Whipple did urge in manly and sincere wise that all the Poopy Panda Pals out there in television-land do likewise, and the enhaloed Poopy Panda did say in his lovable growly voice, Poop-poop-poopy.

This is the only way to make him lovable, and love is the sole bestower of happiness in this world.

Although the hubara were not particularly lovable creatures, her tender heart would have found it difficult to contemplate eating their flesh, no matter how delicious it might be.

In all of London, with so many women on the lookout for a husband, surely there must be one to appeal to a lovable lobcock like her absentminded brother.

Norbert will marry some lovable, clever woman: old Louis XIV was seduced by the Duchess of Burgundy.

The poem begins very simply and naturally till the Ancient Mariner kills the albatross, a lovable and unoffending bird.

After all, human beings have killed lovable and unoffending birds since time immemorial.

Besides ourselves, and Nont, and the Russian rabbits, there was only one other denizen of our Kingdom--a turkey with a broken leg, a lonely, lovable fowl which John, out of pity, raised to the peerage and the office of Prime Minister.

He is the most perfectly lovable and trustable being I know, or can conceive of knowing.

I learned of the Azteca speech was the name of the very lovely and lovable little lady who eased my pain and brought me food as I recovered quickly from my head wounds in that dry, clean air.

The earmuffs made him appear, at the same time, reassuring, amusing, and, ultimately, lovable.

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She chose the same motif as he had earlier, nymphs and satyrs, but even before he joined her she added a sub-routine which included lovable pets interacting on the periphery of the scenes.

The next-highest ratings went to an early morning kiddie show featuring an oversized, hairy, and lovable tarantula whom preschoolers adored, for no reason any adult could fathom, providing the local psychoanalytical community with fodder for publications for years to come.