Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Delightful, lovable, and charming: an adorable set of twins.
- adj. Worthy of adoration.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Demanding adoration; worthy of being adored; worthy of divine honors.
- Worthy of the utmost love or admiration: as, she is an adorable creature; an adorable statue.
- Demanding adoration; worthy of being adored; worthy of divine honors.
- Worthy of the utmost love or admiration: as, she is an adorable creature; an adorable statue.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
- adj. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lovable especially in a childlike or naive way
Etymologies
- Borrowed from French adorable (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They need more pictures of him smiling, he looked so freakin adorable at the end.”
“Halloween is a great time to dress your furry friend in adorable costumes and parade them around in all of their outfitted glory”
The Huffington Post: Wendy Diamond: Halloween Safety Tips for Pets!
“Halloween is a great time to dress your furry friend in adorable costumes and parade them around in all of their outfitted glory.”
The Huffington Post: Wendy Diamond: Halloween Safety Tips for Pets!
“Clearly, children are environmental disasters in adorable packaging.”
“YETIIIII!!! yuummm to answer ur question about the penguin waffle maker ... it was the best thing my ex ever gave me! hahah how adorable is it?”
“CHRIS, early thirties but armed with boyish good looks, cleans up the remnants of a snack that BEE, a petite, freakin adorable, but potentially challenging toddler, just shy of 22 months, has abandoned.”
“Oh, and those are some freakin adorable pictures. pgoodness Said,”
“Feeling like that and taking care of a baby, no matter how sweet and adorable, is so hard.”
“Moonstruck Chocolates displayed specialized in adorable animal shaped chocolates.”
“How adorable is this tiny real pistol, called the SwissMiniGun?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adorable’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Kitten Is:
Mere days ago, I found a five-week-old kitten abandoned in the median of the Avenue we live on. She was in terrible shape, but is doing great now thanks to love and dedication.
The fo...small, hyper, bitey, silly, springy, soft, sage-eyed, tortoise shell, archy, darty, sneaky, bestriped and 27 more...
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Kingly epithets
Take one of CharlesFerdinand's excellent Merovingians or Goths, add a "the" and one of these descriptors, and presto, a character for your long-planned spoof fantasy novel.
unlikely, chuckleheaded, aloof, lacklustre, slow, murky, neurotic, clichéd, pediculous, dour, bungling, dandy and 23 more...
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Adjectives
Appearance Adjectives
Appearance Adject..., adorable, beautiful, clean, drab, elegant, fancy, glamorous, handsome, long, magnificent, old-fashioned and 5 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Cute words
Either words that sound cute, mean the word cute or ddescribe something cute.
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 124
nicely, adorable, hang around, Pet Finders, put up, flyer, claim, whine, roasting pan, doggy, shelter, animal shelter and 23 more...
Tweets
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