admire
to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
to regard with wonder or surprise (usually used ironically or sarcastically): I admire your audacity.
to feel or express admiration.
Dialect. to take pleasure; like or desire: I would admire to go.
Idioms about admire
be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire: He's admiring of his brother's farm.
Origin of admire
1Other words for admire
Opposites for admire
Other words from admire
- ad·mir·er, noun
- pre·ad·mire, verb (used with object), pre·ad·mired, pre·ad·mir·ing.
- qua·si-ad·mire, verb, qua·si-ad·mired, qua·si-ad·mir·ing.
- un·ad·mired, adjective
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How to use admire in a sentence
People have a complicated relationship with robots, torn between admiring them, fearing them, rejecting them, and even boycotting them, as has happened in the automobile industry.
I admire anybody who can look forward, and make a statement about 2021.
Last week’s vaccine-led rally was one for the record books—but is all that good news already priced in? | Bernhard Warner | November 16, 2020 | FortuneRussell, a player he admired above all others, scored 19 points for Boston, with 32 rebounds and five blocked shots.
Tom Heinsohn, mainstay of Boston Celtics dynasty as player, coach, dies at 86 | Matt Schudel | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostIt was a publishing company, based in New York, whose product I really admired.
To take control of your career, ask for what you want—directly and explicitly | matthewheimer | November 8, 2020 | FortuneSo, the second rookie mistake, I would say, was that because I trust and admire Gerard and his experience greatly, I did not put a great deal of oversight over the company.
Why the Left Had to Steal the Right’s Dark-Money Playbook (Bonus Episode) | Sudhir Venkatesh | October 31, 2020 | Freakonomics
Something about it I admire and something about it I find unpersuasive.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination | Mindy Farabee | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe also recalls the many visitors who would often go to the island to admire its harvests and wildlife.
You have to admire his convictions; most frustrated auteurs in this town just call such things “an Alan Smithee project.”
He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen.
Are Politicians Too Dumb to Understand the Lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’? | Parker Molloy | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLet them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and when we hear with our ears, we shall admire.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousI'd admire to see him cavorting around on the pinnacles after horse-thieves or whisky-runners or a bunch of bad Indians.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairWe idlers had permission granted us to land and visit the town, in which, however, we found but little to admire.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferThe dining room was for the souls of the locals, who could admire the desert more conveniently than find a good meal.
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeI greatly admire his character, but he positively could not have made his way along the fire trenches I inspected yesterday.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for admire
/ (ədˈmaɪə) /
to regard with esteem, respect, approval, or pleased surprise
archaic to wonder at
Origin of admire
1Derived forms of admire
- admirer, noun
- admiring, adjective
- admiringly, adverb
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