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admiring

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of admiring

expressing approval

the smartly dressed couple drew admiring glances

Synonyms of admiring

applauding, appreciative, approbatory, approving, commendatory, complimentary, favorable, friendly, good, positive

Words Related to admiring

accepting, warm

encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering, hagiographic (also hagiographical), laudative, laudatory, panegyrical, praiseful

respectful, supportive, sympathetic

adoring, adulatory, idolizing, worshipful, worshipping (also worshiping)

advisory, recommendatory

Near Antonyms of admiring

captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), censuring, critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical

belittling, contemptuous, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, slighting

Antonyms of admiring

adverse, depreciative, depreciatory, derogatory, disapproving, inappreciative, negative, unappreciative, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unflattering, unfriendly

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