Not Adorable or Cute

So, it's happened.  For years I listened to my daughters talk about elderly men they liked and refer to them as "cute."  I threatened them with severe consequences should they ever be tempted to describe me with that condescending adjective.  I was very stern because I had observed that they employed that adjective to very old men whom they appeared to consider to be childlike.  In fact the inflection was exactly the same when they described actions or attributes of a toddler and a man of 80 + years.  But I cannot threaten everyone.

The other day my daughter Elizabeth told me that in conversations with some of her friends she mentioned that I was retired and in response to their question about what I am doing now she said that I practice the piano and go to the Temple.  Their response?  "That's adorable!"

Adorable is much too close to cute (which in fact is listed in Word's Thesaurus as a synonym).  So, I appear to have arrived already at my dotage.    My wife and I are traveling to see Elizabeth and her family in April. I think I will seek out Elizabeth's friends and roundly curse them out.  I wonder if they will find that to be adorable?