adoring

adoring

adjective

Definition of ADORING

1

feeling or showing love <adoring grandparents who love to spoil their grandchildren>

Synonyms adoring, affectionate, devoted, fond, tender, tenderhearted

Related Words caring, compassionate, considerate, cordial, doting, forgiving, friendly, humane, kind, understanding, warmhearted; ardent, fervent, impassioned, passionate, warm; amatory, amorous, erotic (also erotical); enamored, infatuated, lovesick; lovey-dovey, mushy, romantic, sappy, sentimental; brotherly, fatherly, motherly, sisterly

Near Antonyms aloof, antisocial, cold-eyed, cool, detached, distant, dry, frosty, hard-hearted, indifferent, offish, pitiless, remote, reserved, standoffish, unbending, uncaring, unfeeling; disaffected, unconcerned, uninvolved; cold, frigid, unfriendly; callous, cold-blooded, hard-boiled, heartless, pitiless, ruthless, soulless, unromantic, unsentimental

Antonyms unloving

2

reflecting great admiration or devotion <the adoring attention of the girls' gymnastics team when our local Olympic hero spoke to them>

Synonyms adoring, adulatory, deifying, idolizing, worshipping (also worshiping)

Related Words glorifying, reverent, reverential, venerating; hagiographic (also hagiographical); affectionate, fond, loving; appreciative, deferential, respectful; approving

Near Antonyms condemning, contemptuous, disapproving, hateful, loathing, scornful