Synonyms & Antonyms for adore

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revere, reverence, venerate, worship, adore mean to honor and admire profoundly and respectfully. revere stresses deference and tenderness of feeling. a professor revered by her students reverence presupposes an intrinsic merit and inviolability in the one honored and a similar depth of feeling in the one honoring. reverenced the academy's code of honor venerate implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age. heroes still venerated worship implies homage usually expressed in words or ceremony. worships their memory adore implies love and stresses the notion of an individual and personal attachment. we adored our doctor

Examples of adore in a Sentence

He's a good doctor. All his patients adore him. They adored shopping in all the boutiques.

Recent Examples on the Web All these issues are the exact opposite of what most crypto fans adore about Bitcoin and similar coins. — Simon Constable, Forbes, "Two Nightmare Scenarios For Bitcoin," 26 Apr. 2021 For kids and the young at heart there is a lot to adore about Waffles + Mochi, available on Netflix. — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, "Food shows offer all of the fun, none of the cleanup," 12 Apr. 2021 The Switch is so popular because Nintendo has all that original content that fans adore. — Chris Smith, BGR, "Qualcomm is making a Nintendo Switch clone of its own," 24 Mar. 2021 Shoppers absolutely adore the Gemini link canvas small top-zip tote bag, as evidenced by the 4.8-star rating from nearly 300 shoppers. — Melissa Lee, USA TODAY, "7 top-rated Tory Burch handbags and purses to get on sale from the spring event," 24 Mar. 2021 Cheese fans adore the affordable selection offered at Costco, and digital senior food editor Sheena Chihak is a big fan. — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, "Our Absolute Favorite Items from Costco That Make the Membership Worth It," 10 Mar. 2021 One Cast will adore it, while those who find its inscrutable lack of controls and display to be infuriating. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, "The Cyrus One Cast Smart Amplifier Could Be The Answer To All Your Music Needs," 1 Mar. 2021 The transition has been fast, because the menu already reflects the Italian fare that DeBilzan grew to adore during his tenure at several top Seattle restaurants. — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, "5 best things our food writers ate in the Twin Cities this week," 5 Feb. 2021 Despite the disgust many in the GOP Washington establishment have for former President Donald Trump, Republicans continue to adore the former president, far more than the party’s modern-day hero, former President Ronald Reagan. — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, "Republicans choose Trump over Reagan as ‘best president’ ever 2-1," 17 Feb. 2021

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History and Etymology for adore

Middle English aouren, adouren, borrowed from Anglo-French aurer, ahourer, adourer (with d restored from Latin), going back to Latin adōrāre "to plead with, appeal to, approach (a god) as a suppliant or worshipper, treat with reverence, admire," from ad- ad- + ōrāre "to pray to, beseech" — more at oration

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