Adore

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To worship as God or a god.
  • v. To regard with deep, often rapturous love. See Synonyms at revere1.
  • v. To like very much: adores mink coats.
  • verb-intransitive. To worship.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To worship.
  • v. To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
  • v. To be very fond of.
  • v. To adorn.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a deity or as divine.
  • v. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
  • v. To adorn.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To worship; pay supreme reverence to; address in prayer and thanksgiving; pay divine honors to; honor as divine.
  • To honor and regard in a very high degree; regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect.
  • Synonyms Adore, Worship, Reverence, Venerate, Revere, idolize, deify, pay homage to. Adore and worship, when not applied exclusively to God or gods, are manifestly hyperbolical: as, he worshiped the ground she trod on. The others seem literal when applied to men, places, or things. Adore and worship are applied primarily to acts and words of homage; the others are not. None of them primarily includes the idea of intercessory prayer. Adore is the noblest of the words. To worship is to pay homage by outward forms or in customary places: “A man of Ethiopia … had come to Jerusalem for to worship.” Acts viii. 27. In the Bible worship is used to express also extreme manifestations of respect paid to men: “As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.” Acts x. 25. Reverence is upon a plane a little different from that of venerate, there being sometimes more fear suggested by the former and more sacredness by the latter. We should reverence position, ability, and character; we should venerate old age. Revere differs from reverence chiefly in suggesting rather less solemnity or awe.
  • To perform an act of worship; be filled with adoration, reverence, or reverential admiration.
  • To gild; adorn.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. love intensely
  • Verb Form
    adored    adores    adoring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    love   
    Hyponym
    fetishize    idolise    revere    idolize    worship    hero-worship   
    Form
    adorer    adorant    adorative    adoringly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    idolize    adorn    worship    admire    love   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boer    Bohr    C4    Dior    Dore    Flore    Fore    Gabor    Gore    Igor   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts