Cute List

Cute List

Small talk can be dull and boring but it doesn’t always have to be! Break away from the gray, usual vocabulary you always use when talking to loved ones and co-workers and add a little sparkle with these cute words you can add in any conversation.
Some of these words can be used to describe numerous cute things like puppies, newborn babies, and even cupcakes! To help you out, we’ve listed them in alphabetical order with cute words starting with the letter A all the way to cute words starting with the letter Z so no matter what the occasion (or even the Instagram caption ) you’ll always have an adorable word or two to say!
Take a peek at all 75 cute words down below and get ready to expand your lexicon. Once you start using them, you’ll definitely be able to add a little sunshine and rainbows to your day!
1. Adorable- inspiring great affection
3. Ado- a state of agitation or fuss, especially about something unimportant
7. Cipher- a secret or disguised way of writing; a code
8. Chortle- a breathy, gleeful laugh
9. Capacious- having a lot of space inside; roomy
10. Docile- ready to accept control or instruction; submissive
11. Discombobulate- to confuse someone
13. Enchanting- delightfully charming or attractive
14. Evince- reveal the presence of feeling
17. Fluff- entertainment or writing perceived as trivial or superficial
18. Fabulous- extraordinary, especially extraordinarily large
19. Giggle- laugh lightly in a nervous, affected, or silly manner
20. Germane- relevant to a subject under consideration
21. Gourmandize- eat good food, especially to excess
23. Hustle- busy movement and activity
25. Intrigue- arouse the curiosity or interest of; fascinate
26. Infirm- not physically or mentally strong, especially through age or illness
27. Illuminate- make something visible or bright by shining light on it; light up
29. Jubilant- feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph
30. Jaunty- having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner
34. Lavish- sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious
35. Lament- a passionate expression of grief or sorrow
36. Luster- a gentle sheen or soft glow, especially that of a partly reflective surface
37. Mollycoddle- treat someone in an indulgent or overprotective way
40. Neat- things arranged in an orderly, tidy way
41. Nostrum- a medicine, especially one that is not considered effective, prepared by an unqualified person.
42. Nomic- having the general force of natural law
43. Opulent- ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish
44. Omniscience- the state of knowing everything
45. Oasis- a fertile spot in a desert, where water is found
46. Pipsqueak- a person considered to be insignificant, especially because they are small or young
47. Perky- always cheerful and happy
48. Picturesque- very beautiful, almost like a picture
49. Quirky- characterized by peculiar or unexpected traits
50. Quiddity- a distinctive feature; a peculiarity
51. Quaff- drink something (especially an alcoholic drink) heartily
52. Ravishing- delightful; entrancing
53. Rapturous- characterized by, feeling or expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm
55. Skedaddle- depart quickly or hurriedly; run away
56. Shenanigans- silly or high-spirited behavior; mischief
57. Sprinkle- scatter or pour small drops or particles of a substance over an object or surface
58. Tidbit- a small piece of tasty food
59. Teem- be full of or swarming with
60. Titter- give a short, half-suppressed laugh
61. Unflappable- having or showing calmness in a crisis
62. Uppermost- highest in place, rank, or importance
63. Utopia- an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect
64. Vivace- played in a lively and brisk manner
67. Wonder- the desire or be curious to know something
68. Whopper- a thing that is extremely or unusually large
69. Wondrous- inspiring a feeling of wonder or delight; marvelous
70. Xenomania- an inordinate attachment to foreign things
71. Xenial- hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners
72. Xenas- a tough, physical, confident woman
73. Yearning- a feeling of intense longing for something
74. Yippee- expressing wild excitement or delight
75. Zing- energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness

There’s nothing more uplifting than looking at photos of cute animals . When you’re searching for a midday pastime or trying to relieve a little stress, looking at adorable creatures is a good way to make your day a little brighter. But depending on where you live in the world, some of the cutest animals out there might not even be on your radar.
In this list of 50 cute animals, we take a look at animals from all over the world. Whether you’re interested in creatures that run, hop, swim, or fly, this list has a little bit of everything—and is sure to teach you something along the way!
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) swimming in the sea.
Sea otters, native to the coasts of the North Pacific Ocean, are a member of the weasel family. They are known for floating on their backs on the water’s surface, sometimes within kelp and seaweed forests. In this position, they sleep, eat, care for their young, and cuddle each other!
Sea otters can live up to 23 years, and typically weigh between 60 and 70 pounds . Once hunted nearly to extinction for their fur, sea otters are currently endangered.
The margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a small wild cat native to Central and South America. A solitary and nocturnal cat, lives mainly in primary evergreen and deciduous forest.
Margays are small, wild cats that live in the evergreen and deciduous forests of Central and South America. They live primarily in trees and use their long, heavy tails for balance .
Mostly nocturnal, margays hunt in trees and eat birds , eggs, fruit, and small mammals. Female margays produce a litter of only one kitten every two years . This, along with the fact that margays have been hunted for their coats, makes these majestic cats endangered.
A red panda sitting in a tree in a Yokohama zoo (Adobe RGB)
Red pandas mostly live in trees and are only a little larger than a domestic cat. These sweet, furry creatures are known for wrapping themselves up in their tails in the winter for warmth . They primarily live in the Eastern Himalayas.
Like giant pandas, red pandas have a pseudo-thumb, which makes it possible for them to grasp bamboo while they eat. They are the only living members of the family Ailuridae .
Short-eared elephant shrew or round-eared sengi (Macroscelides proboscideus)
The distinctive long nose of the elephant shrew lends a whimsical air to these small, fuzzy mammals. Despite their resemblance to mice, elephant shrews are not rodents . They’re not even actually shrews!
They are most closely related to a family of African mammals that includes sea cows, aardvarks and—yes—elephants!
Elephant shrews live in forests and plains in six African countries, eat insects, and give birth to young three to five times a year.
Quokkas are found on some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island. Quokkas earned a reputation on the internet as "the world's happiest animals" and symbols of positivity due to their smiles.
Quokkas, also known as short-tailed scrub wallabies, are native to Australia. Their young are called “joeys” and live in pouches until they’re old enough to survive on their own, like kangaroos.
Quokkas eat grasses and shrubs and can live up to a month without a drink of water. Rottnest Island, off the coast of Australia, is home to approximately 10,000 quokkas that are known for posing for selfies with island visitors.
Fennec foxes have the largest ears relative to the body size of any member of the canid family—which certainly contributes to their cuteness factor. They live in the deserts of North Africa and eat insects like locusts, rodents, lizards, birds, and eggs.
Fennec foxes live in family groups of up to 10 foxes in dens. There, they wait out the hottest part of the day before hunting at night.
Klipspringers are a kind of small antelope that lives in eastern and southern Africa. They can jump up to 12 feet in the air , and with their special hooves, they can land on a surface about the size of a silver dollar. Each hoof is only the diameter of a dime.
Klipspringers rest during the hottest parts of the day and emerge from the rocky outcroppings they call home in the mornings and early evenings to graze on leaves, fruit, and blossoms.
Japanese weasels live in mountainous and forested areas near the water on the Japanese islands of Honshū, Kyūshū, and Shikoku. They are territorial and live in hollow logs and trees. While Japanese weasels are sometimes found in other habitats—like grasslands and small towns—they tend to avoid highly populated areas.
Japanese weasels are solitary, nocturnal creatures, and are useful for controlling mice and rodent populations.
THIS PIKA LIVES HIGH IN THE TUNDRA IN THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO
These mountain-dwelling herbivores have adapted to thrive in inhospitable environments. Because pikas are so small, they tend to live in colonies that afford them protection on the treeless, rocky slopes they call home.
Pikas live in dens that protect them from the cold. In the warmer months, they collect and dry grasses and wildflowers in the sun and store them in their dens for the winter.
Close up of a quoll. It is sitting on top of a rock with its long tail visible. Shot taken in Australia.
Quolls are tree-dwelling marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea. Their distinctive long tails and spotted coats make these once-abundant mammals easily recognizable.
They are carnivorous and eat small mammals, carrion, and other bits of meat they can get their hands on.
Excluding dingos, quolls are now the largest carnivore on the Australian mainland. The smallest type of quoll weighs a little over two pounds. The largest comes in at an average weight of 11 pounds.
Close up of a Capybara against clear background on a river bank, South Pantanal, Brazil.
Capybaras are the largest rodents on earth. They are closely related to guinea pigs , but they’re also semi-aquatic. Like beavers, they’re excellent swimmers. Their toes are partially webbed to allow capybaras to thrive in wetlands.
Like other rodents, capybaras have teeth that grow continuously, so they keep them trimmed by eating firm grasses and fibrous plants. This makes way for a rather unappetizing habit: capybaras eat their own feces each morning, which allows them to digest the protein-rich fibers of the plants they eat twice.
The Patagonian Mara is a rabbit-like rodent native to southern Argentina. They hop like rabbits, but can also gallop and “stot,” a kind of movement that involves jumping straight up on all fours.
Maras travel in mated pairs, stopping to raise their young in burrows of up to 15 mated pairs. Mara males are aggressively protective and serve as guardians of their families while the females care for the young.
Young white hairy pig looking at the camera. Breed the hungarian Mangalica. Russia, Krasnodar region.
These fuzzy, domesticated pigs look like a cross between pigs and sheep. Native to Hungary, mangalitsa pigs are heritage pigs and are kept for their meat (and because they’re adorable). They are the only surviving breed of pig to have a long coat.
Once nearly extinct, there are now about 60,000 mangalitsa piglets born each year.
In the jungle of Bohol a Tarsier surprise
Easily recognizable by their large eyes, tarsiers are a kind of primate that lives in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Tarsier’s eyes are so large that they are sometimes larger than their brains . Like owls, they can twist their heads 180 degrees in either direction.
Their long fingers and toes aid them as they climb trees and vines in search of their next meal. Tarsiers exclusively eat meat and favor lizards, birds, snakes, frogs, and other small animals.
axolotl mexican salamander portrait underwater while looking at you
Axolotls are aquatic salamanders with distinct, feathery gills on either side of their heads. Unlike other kinds of salamanders, they retain their larval features —and affinity for water—throughout their adult lives.
Axolotls are critically endangered in the wild due to pollution, fishing, and the pet trade. They can grow to be up to a foot long and can live up to 15 years—longer, in captivity.
Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) spotted outdoors in the wild
Tawny frogmouths closely resemble owls but are actually not owls . They are nocturnal and have a similar facial structure to owls, but they lack the sharp talons and strong feet that owls possess.
They are found throughout Australia and eat insects, worms, and snails. They live in trees and rely on their excellent camouflage to keep them hidden during the daylight hours.
These scientific marvels are no less adorable for the fact that they look so strange! Their noses, which are roughly the size of a human fingertip, contain more than 100,000 nerve endings that allow these poor-sighted creatures to navigate through the dark burrows and tunnels they occupy underground.
Star-nosed moles can swim—the only species of mole to do so—and are actually able to smell under water by blowing bubbles. They are the first mammal to be able to detect scents underwater.
Leafy sea dragons maintain their plant-like appearance in order to camouflage with the plant life on the ocean floor, as they are quite poor swimmers . They resemble seahorses but are more closely related to pipefish.
Like both seahorses and pipefish, male sea dragons care for the fertilized eggs. They carry the eggs beneath their tails, where the eggs are provided with oxygen through a special organ.
Honduran White Bats with yellow ears and yellow nose.
Honduran white bats are tiny, reaching an adult size of between 3 and 5 cm long . Their fluffy white coats are offset by orange ears and noses and black, mostly hairless wings.
Honduran white bats live in rainforests, where they roost together upside down in the center of leaves. They move from leaf to leaf every day or so, emerging at night to hunt for vegetation and fruit to eat.
An adult, male Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel in early spring
These striped squirrels resemble a cross between a squirrel and a chipmunk. They behave like most other kinds of squirrels but are set apart by the distinctive 13 stripes —seven dark stripes and six light stripes—that give them their name.
Thirteen-lined ground squirrels, colloquially known as thirteen liners, are particularly active on warm days and favor a diet of seeds, caterpillars, grasshoppers, crickets, and the occasional small mammal like a mouse or a shrew. Thirteen-liners also enjoy eating cicadas.
Long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) looking at you while perching on an oak-branch with a gray defocused background
The long-tailed tit is found in Europe, where it constructs its nest out of feathers, moss, lichen, and spider egg cocoons . Each nest typically contains about 6,000 components.
This insectivore eats the larvae of moths and butterflies in the woodlands it calls home. There, it can be identified by its distinctive triple-trill call.
Lesser mouse-deer in the forest of Thailand
Also known as mouse-deer, chevrotains are the smallest hoofed mammals in the world . At their largest, the African species of chevrotain weighs about 35 pounds. The Asian species weighs about 18 pounds.
Chevrotains have elongated canines that resemble fangs, but they lack the antlers that deer possess. Short, thin legs beneath somewhat rotund bodies mean these little mammals aren’t the most agile. When faced with predators, chevrotains often submerge themselves under water until the predator goes away.
Pygmy hippopotamus baby - Choeropsis liberiensis - in a zoo
Pygmy hippopotamuses, while closely resembling regular-sized hippos, are different in several significant ways. They possess fewer teeth, are less equipped for quick movement underwater, and they ooze a pink fluid that keeps their thin skin moisturized in the sun.
These herbivores are generally shy and are more likely to flee than to fight. They are typically solitary but sometimes live in small family groups or in mated pairs.
Binturong or bearcat (Arctictis binturong). Binturong is widespread in south and southeast Asia occurring in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, China india and indonesia
Binturongs are also known as bearcats. Despite not being closely related to either bears or cats, binturongs do purr and lick themselves to bathe, like cats do. They also mark their territory with a scent that supposedly smells exactly like buttered popcorn .
Binturongs dwell in the trees of northeast India, Bangladesh, Borneo, and the Philippines. They have prehensile tails, like monkeys, that allow them to hang from limbs.
A cute sand cat on the prowl on a tree. Only found in very hot, dry arid deserts.
These desert-dwelling sand cats have been found across the Sahara Desert and in Syria, Iran, Sudan, Egypt, and in various places across the Arabian Peninsula. They are great at digging, which is how they construct their burrows and catch small rodents for food. Their abnormally large ears—which certainly contribute to their cuteness—are used to listen for the faint squeaks of their prey beneath the sand.
They can go weeks without water and are primarily nocturnal to avoid the oppressive heat of the desert daytime.
These adorable nocturnal primates might look innocent with their big eyes and furry faces, but don’t be fooled. They bite with flesh rotting venom .
Despite this particularly brutal defense mechanism, slow lorises rarely use their venom against predators—and certainly not against unsuspecting humans. Instead, they reserve their venomous bite for other slow lorises in order to protect their territory.
Mink are semi-aquatic, which means they have waterproof fur that helps them swim swiftly and dry off quickly. Unfortunately, this quality has often been exploited by the fur industry.
Mink resemble ferrets and weasels and typically live near bodies of water where they hunt rabbits, frogs, muskrats, birds, and insects. They purr and hiss like cats.
Arctic fox, Alopex lagopus, North America
Arctic foxes are recognizable by their bright white coats, which help them blend into their snowy, wind-swept environments. As carnivores, Arctic foxes depend on small animals for survival and are particularly fond of lemmings.
Arctic foxes sleep curled up beneath their tails in order to conserve warmth in their chilly habitats. They are also the only canid with fur on the pads of their feet—which helps contribute to the fact that Arctic foxes don’t begin to shiver until temperatures reach –94 degrees Fahrenheit.
young Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) Swabian Jura
Despite their small stature (most are about the size of a sparrow), pygmy owls are known to take on prey up to three times their own size, including chickens!
They primarily eat songbirds , which is why you can often find pygmy owls being attacked by groups of songbirds protecting their territories. In fact, this is actually a reliable way to find a pygmy owl. If you see songbirds swarming an area, they might be chasing off this unlikely predator.
A male Bee Hummingbird feeds from a plant held by a person in the Hummingbird Garden at Playa Larga in Cuba
The bee hummingbird is the smallest hummingbird in the world. They measure only 2.24 inches in length! Their eggs are the size of a coffee bean .
These colorful little birds sport vibrant hues of red, orange, yellow, and blue. As they fly, their wings make a sound that resembles the buzzing of a bumblebee .
Bee hummingbirds are incredibly productive little creatures, visiting up to
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