adorable
UK/əˈdɔːɹəbəl//əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/
adorable adjective: befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
Adjective
adorable (comparative more adorable, superlative most adorable)
- 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.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171
adorable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
adorable in Hindi
- मनमोहक
adorable in Tamil
- வழிபடத்தக்க, பூசைக்குரிய, போற்றுதலுக்குரிய
adorable in Urdu
- دلکش, فرحت افزا, قابل تعریف
adorable in Bengali
- প্রেমণীয়, মিষ্টি
More languagesFewer languages
- adorable in Malayalam
- ആരാധ്യമായ, മനോഹരമായ, ഉത്തമമായ, ആരാധനീയ
- adorable in Kannada
- ಗೌರವಾರ್ಹ, ಪೂಜಾರ್ಹ
- adorable in Arabic
- فَاتِن fātin, جَذَّاب jaḏḏāb
Examples of adorable in a sentence
- The baby animal trotted cheerfully around the grassy enclosure, adorable in her hippopotamine rotundness.
- This handsome floofer will steal your heart with his easygoing demeanor, soft fur, and adorable teeny-tiny meow.
- Weirdcore design is in, starring fantasy art and adorable mushroom decor.
Forms of adorable
| comparative | more adorable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most adorable |
Origin of adorable
Borrowed from Middle French adorable and its etymon Latin adōrābilis, from adōrāre + -bilis, from ad + ōrō. By surface analysis, adore + -able.
Words formed from adorable
Questions about adorable
- What does adorable mean?
- Adorable means befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
- What is adorable in Hindi?
- Adorable in Hindi is मनमोहक. See Adorable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is adorable?
- Adorable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce adorable?
- Adorable is pronounced /əˈdɔːɹəbəl/ (UK).
Words near adorable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adorable (page history and authors); adorable (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); adorable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adorable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adorable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adorable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); adorable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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