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adorbs

/əˈdɔɹbz/

adorbs adjective: adorable.

Adjective

adorbs (comparative more adorbs, superlative most adorbs)

  1. (colloquial) Adorable.
    • Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) surprised his daughters on Friday evening with an addition to their family: a fluffy white rescue pooch named “Snowflake” (Adorbs!).2014 November 17, Erin C.J. Robinson, “President Obama snuggles a koala and Sen. Ted Cruz adds a furry member to his family: Which VIP had the best weekend?”, in The Washington Post
    • Thanks Nella. Your ballerina butterfly costume is adorbs!2017 Trinket, "The Halloween Hippogriff", Nella the Princess Knight

Forms of adorbs

comparativemore adorbs
superlativemost adorbs

Origin of adorbs

Clipping of adorable + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Questions about adorbs

What does adorbs mean?
Adorbs means adorable.
What part of speech is adorbs?
Adorbs is an adjective.
How do you pronounce adorbs?
Adorbs is pronounced /əˈdɔɹbz/ (US).

Words near adorbs in the dictionary

  1. adorators
  2. adoratory
  3. adoratrice
  4. adoratrices
  5. adorb
  6. adorbs
  7. adorcism
  8. adorcisms
  9. adore
  10. adoreable
  11. adored

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