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

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

• Audio (US)

  (file)

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, 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

• adorability
• adorableness
• adorables
• adorably
• adorbs
• Adoribull
• adorkable
• unadorable

 

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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adorābilis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

adorable m or f (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.

French

Etymology

From Latin adorābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔ.ʁabl/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

adorable (plural adorables)

1. adorable

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adōrābilis.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

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

Adjective

adorable m or f (masculine and feminine plural adorables)

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

Related terms

• adoración
• adorar

 

Further reading

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