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[uh-dawr-uh-buhl, uh-dohr-]

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adjective

very attractive or delightful; charming: What an adorable hat!

worthy of being adored.

Origin:
1605–15; < Latin adōrābilis. See adore, -able

Related forms

a·dor·a·ble·ness, a·dor·a·bil·i·ty, noun

a·dor·a·bly, adverb

un·a·dor·a·ble, adjective

un·a·dor·a·ble·ness, noun

un·a·dor·a·b·ly, adverb

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Some are knitting adorable scarves and making braided challah bread.

Bless every misanthrope and pinch their adorable cheeks.

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He's affordable and adorable and helps workers keep their pay.

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It is not your adorable pet, as shown in the article.

All you need to do is steer through some questions about these adorable animals.

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Put the two together and you've gone over the edge in adorable.

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Having an adorable niece/nephew is always helpful, too.

Wildlife control agents rescue three adorable baby squirrels who have fallen down a chimney, out of reach from their mother.

Moments after an adorable canine trots into a war-torn swarm of soldiers, all hell breaks loose.

Whether you think they are adorable or thoroughly bad taste, the fact is.

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Bogdan blissfully enjoys his vacation at the seaside with his gorgeous wife and adorable young son.

These oddly adorable amphibians show students that science is far from static.

Be honest, a little mouse holding a portal gun is adorable.

The movie gives her plenty of room to blossom into something adorable.

Even the firearms, plastic space-age rayguns with star decals, are adorable.

Smilla suspects not, based on her accidental enchantment with this adorable and neglected child.

Stupid and slow but adorable in its own way and fiesty when it wants to be.

We thought that this library marriage proposal was pretty adorable.

Buffy's the newest to the pack and is adorable but she too is quite strong which makes walking ahead of her difficult.

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World English Dictionary

adorable (əˈdɔːrəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	very attractive; charming; lovable
2.	rare deserving or eliciting adoration

adorableness

—n

a'dorably

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

adorable

1610s, from Fr. adorable, from L. adorabilem "worthy of worship," from adorare (see adore). Weakened sense of "delightful, charming" is recorded from 1710.

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