admire
to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
to regard with wonder or surprise (usually used ironically or sarcastically): I admire your audacity.
to feel or express admiration.
Dialect. to take pleasure; like or desire: I would admire to go.
Idioms about admire
be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire: He's admiring of his brother's farm.
Origin of admire
1Other words for admire
Opposites for admire
Other words from admire
- ad·mir·er, noun
- pre·ad·mire, verb (used with object), pre·ad·mired, pre·ad·mir·ing.
- qua·si-ad·mire, verb, qua·si-ad·mired, qua·si-ad·mir·ing.
- un·ad·mired, adjective
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How to use admire in a sentence
Something about it I admire and something about it I find unpersuasive.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination | Mindy Farabee | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe also recalls the many visitors who would often go to the island to admire its harvests and wildlife.
You have to admire his convictions; most frustrated auteurs in this town just call such things “an Alan Smithee project.”
He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen.
Are Politicians Too Dumb to Understand the Lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’? | Parker Molloy | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and when we hear with our ears, we shall admire.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousI'd admire to see him cavorting around on the pinnacles after horse-thieves or whisky-runners or a bunch of bad Indians.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairWe idlers had permission granted us to land and visit the town, in which, however, we found but little to admire.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferThe dining room was for the souls of the locals, who could admire the desert more conveniently than find a good meal.
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeI greatly admire his character, but he positively could not have made his way along the fire trenches I inspected yesterday.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for admire
/ (ədˈmaɪə) /
to regard with esteem, respect, approval, or pleased surprise
archaic to wonder at
Origin of admire
1Derived forms of admire
- admirer, noun
- admiring, adjective
- admiringly, adverb
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