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adorable

adjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//əˈdɔːɹəbəl//
  • United States//əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl//

Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.

adjective

  1. 1

    Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.

    a romantic love song with adorable-sounding drum beats

    Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French adorable and its etymon Latin adorābilis, from adōrāre + -bilis, from ad + ōrō. By surface analysis, adore + -able.

Forms

comparative
more adorable
superlative
most adorable
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).