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admire
[ ad-mahyuhr ]
verb (used with object)
- to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
Synonyms: venerate, revere, esteem
Antonyms: despise
- 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
/ ədˈmaɪə /
verb
- to regard with esteem, respect, approval, or pleased surprise
- archaic.to wonder at
Derived Forms
- adˈmiring, adjective
- adˈmiringly, adverb
- adˈmirer, noun
Other Words From
- ad·mir·er noun
- pre·ad·mire verb (used with object) preadmired preadmiring
- qua·si-ad·mire verb quasiadmired quasiadmiring
- un·ad·mired adjective
Word History and Origins
Word 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
People have a complicated relationship with robots, torn between admiring them, fearing them, rejecting them, and even boycotting them, as has happened in the automobile industry.
I admire anybody who can look forward, and make a statement about 2021.
Russell, a player he admired above all others, scored 19 points for Boston, with 32 rebounds and five blocked shots.
It was a publishing company, based in New York, whose product I really admired.
So, the second rookie mistake, I would say, was that because I trust and admire Gerard and his experience greatly, I did not put a great deal of oversight over the company.
Something about it I admire and something about it I find unpersuasive.
He 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.
It rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen.
Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and when we hear with our ears, we shall admire.
I'd admire to see him cavorting around on the pinnacles after horse-thieves or whisky-runners or a bunch of bad Indians.
We idlers had permission granted us to land and visit the town, in which, however, we found but little to admire.
The dining room was for the souls of the locals, who could admire the desert more conveniently than find a good meal.
I greatly admire his character, but he positively could not have made his way along the fire trenches I inspected yesterday.
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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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