adore

Verb

Meaning

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.

To adorn.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

revere like value love hallow savor relishing respect honor worship prize enjoy praise treasure upwards
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Antonyms

savage sully huff flay bash gibbet
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Hypernyms

love

Hyponyms

revere worship idolize hero worship idolise fetishize

Related terms

adoration adorable

Phrases with the word

i adore you adore week to adore

Anagrams

oared oread dorea Roade Rodea Odera

Examples

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them. Pierre Beaumarchais

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. Henry James

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore. Alexander Pope

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. Giuseppe Verdi

Close letter words and terms

adorb adorbs adorcism adore week adored adored fruit