adorable

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.

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɔːɹəbəl/

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.

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

From Latin adorabilis.

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

adorable (masculine and feminine plural adorables)

1. adorable

• adorablement

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

From Latin adorabilis.

• 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.

From Latin adōrābilis.

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

adorable (plural adorables)

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

• adorar
• adoración

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