absolutely adorbs
- adjective
- /ˈæb.səˌluːt.li əˈdɔːrbz/
- Slang
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absolutamente adorable
- That puppy is absolutely adorbs!
Examples
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I think this dress is absolutely adorbs.
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Those mini cupcakes are absolutely adorbs; I almost don't want to eat them!
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That puppy in the pink sweater is absolutely adorbs!
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Your photos from the birthday party were absolutely adorbs.
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That puppy in the pink sweater is absolutely adorbs!
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Those mini cupcakes are absolutely adorbs; I almost don't want to eat them!
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Your photos from the birthday party were absolutely adorbs.
Synonyms
280
1.0
Very cute in a way that makes people love it
45
1.8
Loved very much by someone
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3.5
Causing people to like someone because they are cute or kind
Antonyms
How Cute
Surface Forms
Morphology
absolutely + adorbs
The structure is simply the intensifier 'absolutely' + the adjective 'adorbs' (an informal/clipped form of 'adorable'), so a learner who knows both constituents can readily derive 'extremely cute.' Although 'adorbs' is slang and may be absent from dictionaries, the compositional pattern of intensifier + adjective is cross-linguistically common and makes the overall meaning predictable.
Etymology
The slang phrase absolutely adorbs comes from online and texting language, where people shorten adorable to the playful form adorbs and add 'absolutely' to make the feeling stronger. Imagine someone sending a photo of a tiny puppy and writing absolutely adorbs to show how much they love it, so it means 'extremely cute'.