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venerate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of venerate

to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power

  • a proper setting in which to venerate God
Synonyms of venerate

adore, deify, glorify, revere, reverence, worship
Words Related to venerate

admire, honor, love, regard, respect

apotheosize, canonize, dignify, exalt, lionize, magnify

extol (also extoll), laud, praise

delight, gratify, please, satisfy
Near Antonyms of venerate

blaspheme, desecrate, profane, violate

affront, dishonor, disrespect, insult, offend, outrage, pique, ridicule, scorn, slight

displease

defame, disparage, libel, malign, slander, slur, smear

Synonym Discussion of venerate

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

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