different between adorable vs exquisite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French adorable, from adorer +? -able, with adorer from Old French aorer, from Latin ad?r?re, the present active infinitive of ad?r?, which is from ad +? ?r?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d????b?l/

Adjective

adorable (comparative more adorable, superlative most adorable)

1. Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Albaredo, Arboleda, dolabrae, oar blade, oarblade, roadable

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin adorabilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.do??a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.du??a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.do??a.ble/
• Rhymes: -a?le

Adjective

adorable (masculine and feminine plural adorables)

1. adorable

Derived terms

• adorablement

Further reading

• “adorable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin adorabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?.?abl/

Adjective

adorable (plural adorables)

1. adorable

Further reading

• “adorable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ad?r?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ado??able/, [a.ð?o??a.??le]

Adjective

adorable (plural adorables)

1. adorable
2. lovable, loveable, cuddly, cute, sweet, dear, endearing

Related terms

• adorar
• adoración

Further reading

• “adorable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin exqu?s?tus, perfect passive participle of exqu?r? (“seek out”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?skw?z?t/, /??kskw?z?t/

Adjective

exquisite (comparative more exquisite, superlative most exquisite)

1. Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

   • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

2. (obsolete) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
3. Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
4. Of special beauty or rare excellence.
5. Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.

6. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

   • his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite

Synonyms

• beautiful, delicate, discriminating, perfect

Translations

Noun

exquisite (plural exquisites)

1. (rare) Fop, dandy. [from early 20th c.]
   • 1849, Alexander Mackay, The western world; or, travels in the United States in 1846-87 (page 93)

     It is impossible to meet with a more finished coxcomb than a Broadway exquisite, or a “Broadway swell,” which is the designation attached to him on the spot.

   • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 42.

     So striking was his appearance that two exquisites, emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.

     'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite.

Translations

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

exquisite

1. inflection of exquisit:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Participle

exqu?s?te

1. vocative masculine singular of exqu?s?tus

References

• exquisite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers