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admire
[ad-mahyuhr]
verb (used with object)
to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
Antonyms: despiseto regard with wonder or surprise (usually used ironically or sarcastically).
I admire your audacity.
verb (used without object)
to feel or express admiration.
Dialect., to take pleasure; like or desire.
I would admire to go.
admire
/ ədˈmaɪə /
verb
to regard with esteem, respect, approval, or pleased surprise
archaic, to wonder at
Other Word Forms
- admirer noun
- preadmire verb (used with object)
- quasi-admire verb
- unadmired adjective
- admiring adjective
- admiringly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of admire1
Idioms and Phrases
be admiring of, to admire.
He's admiring of his brother's farm.
Example Sentences
“I wanted to see things, I wanted to feel things. I wanted to experience people. And you don’t do that when you sit in the house on the sofa admiring your curtains.”
“I wanted to see things, I wanted to feel things. I wanted to experience people. And you don’t do that when you sit in the house on the sofa admiring your curtains.”
It’s meant to be picked up, perused and admired.
Mamdani said Wednesday that he admired Tisch for cracking down on corruption in the upper echelons of the police department, lowering crime and “standing up for New Yorkers in the face of authoritarianism.”
I really admire her — I feel like I have that in me, but in a different way.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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