Word Meanings - ADORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADORE)

• Glorify
• Exalt
• honor
• elevate
• laud
• praise
• signalize
• magnify
• aggrandize
• adore
• panegyrize
• extol
• Idolize
• Worship
• venerate
• Worship Adore
• reverence
• revere
• deify
• idolize
• exalt

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADORE)

• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove
• Abominate
• loathe
• contemn

Related words: (words related to ADORE)

• WORSHIPFUL
  Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• 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.
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• IDOLIZE
  1. To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt. 2. To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.
• REVERENTIALLY
  In a reverential manner.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• WORSHIPABLE
  Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• REVERENDLY
  Reverently. Foxe.
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• MAGNIFY
  1. To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one
• ADOREMENT
  The act of adoring; adoration. Sir T. Browne.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• MISWORSHIP
  Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.
• UNREVERENT
  Irreverent. Shak.
• SEXTOLET
  A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
• DISDEIFY
  To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.
• DISGLORIFY
  To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton.
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.
• SELF-WORSHIP
  The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.