“Lovely”

Jane43

Not just lovely as an adjective but as a personal pronoun - people in shops seem to call me ‘lovely’ all the time eg “Thank you lovely.”

Here in Gloucestershire, you get called "my lovely".

Particularly by medical staff.

I don't like being addressed as 'lovely', it sounds patronising, 'this won't hurt, lovely..' particularly medical people.

Long time since I was called alluring. A very long time 😀

Thank you.
That's very alluring of you.

In Ireland - "grand" is often a reply to a question. Eg "how was your trip?"

I do try not to use lovely too much and remember words my mum used. A pleasant woman. A beautiful morning. The food was delicious. Lovely could have been used.

Seeing as nobody seems to be suggesting alternatives, I've just googled, where it suggests, alluring, and a couple of others, and quickly moves onto gorgeous, stunning, and words that to me, are far more effusive than I'd use.

Not that I'd say I met an alluring woman,anyway.

What would you use instead?

I don't mind lovely as long as it's not used too much. Better than fabulous or fantastic used a lot by celebrities.

It is.

At least lovely is a lovely word 😊

So, alternatives to lovely or nice?

I remember when lots of things were super.

I seem to remember being told to vary my adjectives in English lessons 60+ years ago.

MissAdventure

What would you use instead of nice, though?

Lovely?

What would you use instead of nice, though?

A step up from the ubiquitous ' nice' though.

It drives me nuts when people keep answering with perfect. My hairdresser refers to everything as perfect! Agghhh!

Smashing should make a comeback, I think

I think there are worse words to use, ‘amazing’ for instance. Whenever I talk to an estate agent on the phone these days - I have to because we are moving house- they almost always respond to everything I say with amazing. But I am just talking about viewings fir our house which isn’t that amazing when you think about it.

Wagwan, Gs,

It was proper lit today at the Womens Institute, as we had the G.O.A.T giving us chat, innit?

There is a fashion in language as in everything else.

Remember our school-days (late 1960s) when everything was "fab"? Then "fantastic", "groovy" and more recently "awesome".

"Lovely" instead of "nice" will go the way of all the others. It is harder to predict what the new term will be.

I use lovely a lot.

I expect I have a limited vocabulary, because I can't think of many other words, which are true, anyway.

I'd sound like a simp.

escaped

Everything I type "lovely" on my phone, my finger slips and hits the "i" key, so my messages read:
"I had a lively time with a lively group of ladies doing lots of lively things."
The mind boggles! 😃

I have that as well!