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# adorable

«adorable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very sweet, cute and lovely, so that you want to cuddle…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (adorable, more adorable, most adorable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very sweet, cute and lovely, so that you want to cuddle or look after it: «an adorable puppy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/#m1)

2) Charming and easy to love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk people use «adorable» for babies, small animals and cute things, and sometimes for a funny thing someone says. In stories it shows that a character finds someone sweet. Stronger than «cute». Phrases: «absolutely adorable», «so adorable».

### examples

- The puppy with the floppy ears is adorable! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/#x1)
- My baby cousin looks adorable in his little hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/#x2)
- Grandma thought my drawing was adorable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/#x3)
- The kittens were curled up in an adorable heap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/#x4)
- «You're adorable,» said the girl to her hamster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/#x5)
- The lamb's wobbly first steps were adorable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/#x6)
- The King, much moved, said, ‘Adorable Princess, dry your tears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/#x7)

### note

Spelling: adore + able, drop the «e» of adore: adorable. Noun: adorableness (rare). Can sound babyish if said about an older child; some people don't like being called adorable.

### In the corpora

- [Before -able, a final e usually drops (adorable) but stays after soft c or g (noticeable, changeable).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adorable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adorable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.