Word Meanings - ADORABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne. 2. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.

Related words: (words related to ADORABLE)

• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• ADORE
  adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• ADORN
  Adorned; decorated. Milton.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• DESERVEDLY
  According to desert ; justly.
• ADOREMENT
  The act of adoring; adoration. Sir T. Browne.
• DIVINE
  1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines." Denham. 2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• DESERVING
  Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.
• WORTHY
  A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. The blood of ancient worthies
• DIVINELY
  1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• AUTHORESS
  A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• PEGADOR
  A species of remora . See Remora.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• AMBASSADORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.
• UNDESERVER
  One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• NEO-CHRISTIANITY
  Rationalism.
• INAUTHORITATIVE
  Without authority; not authoritative.
• DISRESPECT
  Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.