Meanings
comparative more adorable · superlative most adorable
- Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
a romantic love song with adorable-sounding drum beats
1 more example
Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinadōrābilis
- Middle Frenchadorable
- Englishadorable
Borrowed from Middle French adorable and its etymon Latin adōrābilis, from adōrāre + -bilis, from ad + ōrō. By surface analysis, adore + -able.
More words from Middle French, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic فَاتِن, جَذَّاب
- فَاتِن (fātin)befitting of being adored
- جَذَّاب (jaḏḏāb)befitting of being adored
Bulgarian обожа́ем
- обожа́ем (obožáem)befitting of being adored
Catalan adorable
- adorablebefitting of being adored
Chinese Mandarin 可愛 /可爱
- 可愛 /可爱 (kě'ài)befitting of being adored
Dutch schattig, snoezig
- schattigbefitting of being adored
- snoezigbefitting of being adored
- beeldigbefitting of being adored
Esperanto adorinda, ĉarmega
- adorindabefitting of being adored
- ĉarmegabefitting of being adored
Finnish suloinen, hellyttävä
- suloinenbefitting of being adored
- hellyttäväbefitting of being adored
- herttainenbefitting of being adored
- hurmaavabefitting of being adored
French adorable, mignon
- adorablebefitting of being adored
- mignonbefitting of being adored
German süß, lieb
- süßbefitting of being adored
- liebbefitting of being adored
- nettbefitting of being adored
- bezauberndbefitting of being adored
- goldigbefitting of being adored
- niedlichbefitting of being adored
Greek αξιαγάπητος, αξιολάτρευτος
- αξιαγάπητος (axiagápitos)befitting of being adored
- αξιολάτρευτος (axiolátreftos)befitting of being adored
- αξιέραστος (axiérastos)befitting of being adored
Hungarian imádni való
- imádni valóbefitting of being adored
Italian adorabile
- adorabilebefitting of being adored
Japanese 可愛い
- 可愛い (kawaii)befitting of being adored
Latin adorabilis
- adorabilisbefitting of being adored
Portuguese adorável
- adorávelbefitting of being adored
Romanian adorabil, vrednic de adorare
- adorabilbefitting of being adored
- vrednic de adorarebefitting of being adored
Russian хоро́шенький, ми́лый
- хоро́шенький (xoróšenʹkij)befitting of being adored
- ми́лый (mílyj)befitting of being adored
- обожа́емый (obožájemyj)befitting of being adored
Spanish adorable, encantador
- adorablebefitting of being adored
- encantadorbefitting of being adored
Swedish bedårande, förtjusande
- bedårandebefitting of being adored
- förtjusandebefitting of being adored
Yiddish מלא־חן
- מלא־חן (mole-khéyn)befitting of being adored
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Cite this entry
adorable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adorable
“adorable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adorable. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adorable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adorable.
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