Synonyms of worshipful

worshipful

adjective

ˈwər-shəp-fəl 

as in adoring

reflecting great admiration or devotion

a movie fan's worshipful stare upon finally meeting her idol

a teacher surrounded by worshipful little children

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adoring
• loving
• affectionate
• worshipping
• appreciative
• adulatory
• reverent
• reverential
• deifying
• idolizing
• respectful
• hagiographic
• deferential
• fond
• glorifying
• venerating
• approving

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• contemptuous
• hateful
• scornful
• disapproving
• loathing
• condemning

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of worshipful

For sports fans, especially those worshipful of King Eric, this is pure cinematic cocaine, neatly chopped out, electrifying at first although too much of it could leave you feeling jaded and jangly. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026

Since 1980, her partner had been the kindly, worshipful Dutch actor Robert Wolders, whom Ferrer likens to a gentlemanly doormat. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026

West was at the height of his cultural influence and had handpicked Chance, a fellow Chicago native, as his protégé—the successor to the soul-drenched, worshipful hip-hop that West had popularized in the mid-two-thousands. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025

After a while, though, all the professions of sincerity and thanks, the constant invocations of the one true POTUS, and the worshipful exhibits upstairs give the whole place a cultish, nostalgic gleam. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 4 June 2026