adorable
Americanadjective
-
very attractive; charming; lovable
-
rare deserving or eliciting adoration
Other Word Forms
- adorability noun
- adorableness noun
- adorably adverb
- unadorable adjective
- unadorableness noun
- unadorably adverb
Etymology
Origin of adorable
From the Latin word adōrābilis, dating back to 1605–15. See adore, -able
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He added: "It would be just adorable out of this space if I'm really getting to the Olympic Games in cycling at 44."
From Barron's
The couple said they found social media posts of Punch carrying around the soft toy "adorable."
From Barron's
A few days later Tisch informed Epstein that he met the proposed woman, describing her as “adorable.”
Lily’s room is no bigger than the closet I share with Camille, but she has adorable peach walls and dinosaur curtains, along with a tornado-just-wrecked-a-toy-store vibe.
From Literature
Lighton was thinking about the traditional Hollywood “meet cute”—the typically adorable way pairs first encounter one another in rom coms.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
