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admire
[ ad-mahyuhr ]
verb (used with object)
- to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms:
- to regard with wonder or surprise (usually used ironically or sarcastically):
I admire your audacity.
verb (used without object)
- to feel or express admiration.
- Dialect. to take pleasure; like or desire:
I would admire to go.
admire
/ əˈɪə /
verb
- to regard with esteem, respect, approval, or pleased surprise
- archaic.to wonder at
Derived Forms
- ˈԲ, adjective
- ˈԲly, adverb
- ˈ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·· noun
- ·· verb (used with object) preadmired preadmiring
- ܲ·-· verb quasiadmired quasiadmiring
- ܲ·· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of admire1
Idioms and Phrases
- be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire:
He's admiring of his brother's farm.
Example Sentences
"Over the decades it hurt me to know that someone I admired so much shared his dislike of me publicly as an artist. I didn't understand it."
It’s hard to know which is more unsettling: that the leader of the free world could spout complete drivel about its most successful and admired economy.
Kerr was widely admired in academic circles, but to Reagan, he was "soft" and had "appeased" campus protesters.
This was, of course, all in the administration of William McKinley, whom Trump refers to and admires; he wants the mountain in Alaska to be renamed “Mount McKinley.”
Before that, South Korea was not somewhere you might expect a military takeover - a peaceful and proud democracy, admired across the globe for its K-dramas and technological innovation.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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