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adoring

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of adoring

1 feeling or showing love

adoring grandparents who love to spoil their grandchildren

Synonyms of adoring

affectionate, devoted, fond, loving, tender, tenderhearted

Words Related to adoring

caring, compassionate, considerate, cordial, doting, forgiving, kind, understanding, warmhearted

ardent, fervent, impassioned, passionate, warm

enamored, infatuated, lovesick

lovey-dovey, mushy, romantic, sappy, sentimental

brotherly, fatherly, motherly, sisterly

Near Antonyms of adoring

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, heartless, pitiless, ruthless, unromantic, unsentimental

Antonyms of adoring

2 reflecting great admiration or devotion

the adoring attention of the girls' gymnastics team when our local Olympic hero spoke to them

Synonyms of adoring

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

Words Related to adoring

glorifying, reverent, reverential, venerating

hagiographic (also hagiographical)

affectionate, fond, loving

appreciative, deferential, respectful

Near Antonyms of adoring

condemning, contemptuous, disapproving, hateful, loathing, scornful

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