Meanings
comparative more adorbs · superlative most adorbs
- colloquialAdorable.
2017 Trinket, "The Halloween Hippogriff", Nella the Princess Knight Thanks Nella. Your ballerina butterfly costume is adorbs!
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) surprised his daughters on Friday evening with an addition to their family: a fluffy white rescue pooch named “Snowflake” (Adorbs!).
2014 November 17, Erin C.J. Robinson, “President Obama snuggles a koala and Sen. Ted Cruz adds a furry member to his family: Which VIP had the best weekend?”, in The Washington PostDon’t ask any difficult questions, just look at the cute pictures – disseminated widely – of Modi showering Musk’s kids with gifts. Adorbs.
2025 February 18, Arwa Mahdawi, “Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work – and the reasons aren’t cute at all”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin
Clipping of adorable + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
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adorbs. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adorbs
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