Word Meanings - ADMIRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Wonder; astonishment. Season your admiration for a while. Shak. 2. Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman,

Additional info about word: ADMIRATION

1. Wonder; astonishment. Season your admiration for a while. Shak. 2. Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue. 3. Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy. Now, good Lafeu, bring in the admiration. Shak. Note of admiration, the mark , called also exclamation point. Syn. -- Wonder; approval; appreciation; adoration; reverence; worship.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADMIRATION)

• Astonishment
• Wonder
• surprise
• marvel
• amazement
• admiration
• awe
• bewilderment
• stupefaction
• fascination
• Marvel
• prodigy
• portent
• miracle
• astonishment
• phenomenon
• Amazement
• sign

Related words: (words related to ADMIRATION)

• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• WONDER
  OS. wundar, OHG. wuntar, G. wunder, Icel. undr, Sw. & Dan. under, and perhaps to Gr. 1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• STUPEFACTION
  The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.
• SURPRISE
  1. The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise. 2. The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion
• WONDERLAND
  A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.
• WONDERWORK
  A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.
• WONDERLY
  Wonderfully; wondrously. Chaucer.
• WONDERINGLY
  In a wondering manner.
• MIRACLE
  1. A wonder or wonderful thing. That miracle and queen of genus. Shak. 2. Specifically: An event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one
• WONDERMENT
  Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.
• WONDER-WORKER
  One who performs wonders, or miracles.
• ADMIRATION
  1. Wonder; astonishment. Season your admiration for a while. Shak. 2. Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman,
• FASCINATION
  1. The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest
• BEWILDERMENT
  1. The state of being bewildered. 2. A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.
• WONDEROUS
  See WONDROUS
• SURPRISEMENT
  Surprisal. Daniel.
• MARVELOUSLY
  In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.
• WONDER-WORKING
  Doing wonders or surprising things.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• FERRANTI PHENOMENON
  An increase in the ratio of transformation of an alternating current converter, accompanied by other changes in electrical conditions, occurring when the secondary of the converter is connected with a condenser of moderate capacity; -- so called
• SELF-ADMIRATION
  Admiration of one's self.
• BEWONDER
  1. To fill with wonder. 2. To wonder at; to admire.