admire
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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to feel or express admiration.
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Dialect. to take pleasure; like or desire.
I would admire to go.
idioms
verb
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to regard with esteem, respect, approval, or pleased surprise
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archaic to wonder at
Other Word Forms
- admirer noun
- admiring adjective
- admiringly adverb
- preadmire verb (used with object)
- quasi-admire verb
- unadmired adjective
Etymology
Origin of admire
First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin admīrārī, equivalent to ad- ad- + mīrārī (in Medieval Latin mīrāre ) “to wonder at, admire”
Example Sentences
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It was the resilience and character he demonstrated while trying to make it that fans admired.
From Los Angeles Times
Christmas markets are thought to have originated in Germany in the 14th Century, and its markets have long been admired since.
From BBC
Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.
By 2019 as the developmental process for the concept art was moving along, the Duffer Brothers approached Gower, whose work on “Game of Thrones” and “Chernobyl” they admired.
From Los Angeles Times
Attorney General Robert Jackson, whose views about the power and responsibility of prosecutors are widely admired.
From Salon
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