Adorable
[ə'dɔːrəb(ə)l] or [ə'dɔrəbl]
Definition
(a.) Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
(a.) Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
Editor: Manuel
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Divine, to be adored, worthy of adoration.[2]. Estimable, venerable, worthy of love or honor.
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Examples
- No Adorable to bear me company here! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He said 'Your nose is beautiful, your chin is adorable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No Adorable at the club! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You were the most adorable human creature I had ever seen. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- By the hand of adorable woman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Cruel, to deny me one ray of those adorable eyes! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This constancy of purpose in the right place was adorable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What an admirable woman; what an adorable woman! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Oh, he is indeed a most adorable heavenly creature, rejoined Amy, turning up her eyes in a fit of heroics. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Lydgate by this time had had many interviews with her, and found her more and more adorable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They accuse my angel of a tendency to play: I don't know anything about that, but I _do_ know he is a dear, adorable creature. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To Dorothea this was adorable genuineness, and religious abstinence from that artificiality which uses up the soul in the efforts of pretence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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