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admire

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ad⋅mire

  [ad-mahyuhr] verb, -mired, -mir⋅ing.
Use admire in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
2. to regard with wonder or surprise (usually used ironically or sarcastically): I admire your audacity.
–verb (used without object)
3. to feel or express admiration.
4. Dialect. to take pleasure; like or desire: I would admire to go.
—Idiom
5. be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire: He's admiring of his brother's farm.
Origin:
1580–90; < L admīrārī, equiv. to ad- ad- + mīrārī (in ML mīrāre) to wonder at, admire

Related forms:
ad⋅mir⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. esteem, revere, venerate.

Antonyms:
1. despise.
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ad·mire   (ād-mīr')   
v.   ad·mired, ad·mir·ing, ad·mires

v.   tr.

  1. To regard with pleasure, wonder, and approval.

  2. To have a high opinion of; esteem or respect.

  3. Chiefly New England & Upper Southern U.S. To enjoy (something): "I just admire to get letters, but I don't admire to answer them" (Dialect Notes).

  4. Archaic To marvel or wonder at.

v.   intr. New England & Upper Southern U.S.
To marvel at something. Often used with at.

[French admirer, from Old French amirer, from Latin admīrārī, to wonder at : ad-, ad- + mīrārī, to wonder (from mīrus, wonderful; see smei- in Indo-European roots).]
ad·mir'er n., ad·mir'ing·ly adv.
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