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adjective
displaying or feeling admiration: admiring looks.
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Admiring
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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)
Idiom3.
to feel or express admiration.
4.
Dialect. to take pleasure; like or desire: I would admire to go.
5.
be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire: He's admiring of his brother's farm.
Origin:
1580–90; < Latin admīrārī, equivalent to ad- ad- + mīrārī (in Medieval Latin mīrāre) to wonder at, admire
1580–90; < Latin admīrārī, equivalent to ad- ad- + mīrārī (in Medieval Latin mīrāre) to wonder at, admire
Related forms
ad·mir·er, noun
pre·ad·mire, verb (used with object), pre·ad·mired, pre·ad·mir·ing.
pre·ad·mir·er, noun
qua·si-ad·mire, verb, qua·si-ad·mired, qua·si-ad·mir·ing.
un·ad·mired, adjective
Synonyms
1. esteem, revere, venerate.
1. esteem, revere, venerate.
Antonyms
1. despise.
1. despise.
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