lovesome

comparative more lovesome · superlative most lovesome · alternative loosome · alternative lossom

1. Worthy of love; having qualities that inspire love; lovable.First known use 10th c.
2. IrelandarchaicAffectionate; friendly.First known use 10th c.
3. Lovable on account of beauty; lovely, beautiful.First known use 12th c.

   A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!

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   Through all the living Regions dost thou move, And scatter'st, where thou goest, the kindly Seeds of Love: Since then the race of every living thing, Obeys thy pow'r; since nothing new can spring Without thy Warmth, without thy Influence bear, Or beautiful or lovesome can appear, Be thou my Aid: my tuneful Song inspire, And kindle with thy own productive Fire;

   1700, John Dryden, “The Beginning of the First Book of Lucretius,”, in Lucretius His Six Books of Epicurean Philosophy:and Manlius His Five Books. Containing a System of the ncient Astronomy and Astrology

4. archaicAmorous; showing or feeling love.First known use 16th c.

   [T]he Lady seems Lovesome, & I fancy lends him Money from Time to Time.

   1790 March 18, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana