ADORABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adorable mean? 

• ADORABLE (adjective)
  The adjective ADORABLE has 1 sense:

1. lovable especially in a childlike or naive way

  Familiarity information: ADORABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADORABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lovable especially in a childlike or naive way

Synonyms:

adorable; endearing; lovely

Similar:

lovable; loveable (having characteristics that attract love or affection)

Derivation:

adorability; adorableness (extreme attractiveness)

adore (love intensely)

 Context examples 

She frowned at his facetiousness—a pretty, adorable frown that made him put his arm around her and kiss it away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“And rescue us from ourselves,” she completed, with a most adorable smile, whimsical as I had never seen it, for it was whimsical with love.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She puckered her brows and pursed up her mouth as she thought, while he looked on and decided that her expression was most adorable.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She found the pin with an adorable little cry, and I turned my attention more fully to my steering.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"I like your dress," remarked Mrs. McKee, "I think it's adorable."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)