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Definition of adorable adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

adorable

adjective
 
/əˈdɔːrəbl/
 
/əˈdɔːrəbl/
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  1. very attractive and easy to feel love for
    • What an adorable child!
    • Isn’t he just adorable?
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryAdorable is used with these nouns:
    • couple
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘worthy of divine worship’): from French, from Latin adorabilis, from the verb adorare ‘to worship’, from ad- ‘to’ + orare ‘speak, pray’.
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