admiring

Speech parts

1. admiring - Noun

2. admiring - Adjective

3. admiring - Verb

Meaning

of Admire

Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

high good relishing positive devoted favorable praise fond appreciate loving praising glowing esteem affectionate admire
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

attack chastise scornful critical cold reluctant
Show all antonyms

Phrases with the word

self-admiring

Anagrams

migniard graminid

Examples

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Miss C. F. Forbes, (18171911). Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. Leonard Susskind

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. Walter Bagehot

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman. Katherine Dunham

A neck without a head, buttocks without a hole and a girl without shame are not worth admiring or marrying. Maltese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

admirer admirer correspondence admirer mail admiringly admissability admissable