adorable

adorable

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French adorable, from adorer +‎ -able, with adorer from Old French aorer, from Latin adōrāre, the present active infinitive of adōrō, which is from ad +‎ ōrō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɔːɹəbəl/

Adjective

adorable (comparative more adorable, superlative most adorable)

1. Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, OCLC 1023879857, page 171:

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

Derived terms

• adorables
• adorbs
• adorkable

 

Translations

befitting of being adored

Arabic: فَاتِن‎ (fātin), جَذَّاب‎ (jaḏḏāb) Bulgarian: обожа́ем (obožáem) Catalan: adorable Chinese: Mandarin: 可愛／可爱 (zh) (kě'ài) Dutch: schattig (nl), snoezig (nl), beeldig (nl) Esperanto: adorinda, ĉarmega Finnish: suloinen (fi), hellyttävä (fi), herttainen (fi), hurmaava (fi) French: adorable (fr), mignon (fr) German: süß (de), lieb (de), nett (de), bezaubernd (de), goldig (de), niedlich (de) Greek: αξιαγάπητος (el) (axiagápitos), αξιολάτρευτος (el) (axiolátreftos), αξιέραστος (el) (axiérastos) Hungarian: imádni való (hu) Italian: adorabile (it) Japanese: 可愛い (ja) (かわいい, kawaii) Ladino: adoravle Macedonian: ми́лен (mílen), мил (mil), сла́док (sládok), симпа́тичен (simpátičen), са́кан (sákan), во́схитен (vóshiten), при́влечен (prívlečen), пре́красен (prékrasen) Norman: adouothabl'ye (Jersey) Portuguese: adorável (pt) Romanian: adorabil (ro), vrednic de adorare Russian: хоро́шенький (ru) (xoróšenʹkij), ми́лый (ru) (mílyj), обожа́емый (ru) (obožájemyj) Spanish: adorable (es), encantador (es) Swedish: bedårande (sv), förtjusande (sv) Yiddish: מלא־חן‎ (mole-khéyn)

Anagrams

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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin adorabilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ə.doˈɾa.blə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ə.duˈɾa.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.doˈɾa.ble/
• Rhymes: -ablə, -able

Adjective

adorable (masculine and feminine plural adorables)

1. adorable

Derived terms

• adorablement

Further reading

• “adorable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Etymology

From Latin adorabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔ.ʁabl/

• Audio

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Adjective

adorable (plural adorables)

1. adorable

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin adōrābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adoˈɾable/ [a.ð̞oˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: a‧do‧ra‧ble

Adjective

adorable (plural adorables)

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

Related terms

• adorar
• adoración

Further reading

• “adorable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014