adorable

Borrowed from French adorable, from adorer +‎ -able, with adorer from Old French aorer, from Latin adōrāre, which is from ad +‎ ōrō +‎ ōrāre. By surface analysis, adore +‎ -able.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdɔːɹəbəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/

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adorable (comparative more adorable, superlative most adorable)

1. Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.

   a romantic love song with adorable-sounding drum beats

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:

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

• Albaredo, Arboleda, dolabrae, oar blade, oarblade, roadable

Borrowed from Latin adorābilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ðuˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ðoˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ðoˈɾa.ble]
• Rhymes: -ablə, -able

adorable m or f (masculine and feminine plural adorables)

1. adorable

• adorablement

• “adorable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Latin adorābilis.

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔ.ʁabl/

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adorable (plural adorables)

1. adorable

• “adorable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin adōrābilis.

• IPA^(key): /adoˈɾable/ [a.ð̞oˈɾa.β̞le]

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• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: a‧do‧ra‧ble

adorable m or f (masculine and feminine plural adorables)

1. adorable
2. lovable, loveable, cuddly, cute, sweet, dear, endearing

• “adorable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish adorable, from Latin adōrābilis.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔadoˈɾable/ [ʔɐ.d̪oˈɾaː.blɛ]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: a‧do‧ra‧ble

adorable (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜇᜊ᜔ᜎᜒ)

1. adorable

   Synonyms: masusuyo, masasamba, kapintu-pintuho

• “adorable”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 12