adorable
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
  • (RP) IPA: /əˈdɔːɹəbəl/
  • (America) IPA: /əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/
Adjective

adorable

  1. Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
    a romantic love song with adorable-sounding drum beats
    • 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.
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