adoring \adoring\ adj.
1. 1 feeling or showing profound respect or veneration.
Opposite of irreverent.
Syn: worshipful, reverent
[WordNet 1.5]
2. 1 feeling or showing a deep love and devotion to. her
adoring parents
Syn: doting, fond, lovesome
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
adore \a*dore"\ ([.a]*d[=o]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. adored
([.a]*d[=o]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. adoring
([.a]*d[=o]r"[i^]ng).] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF.
aorer, adorer, F. adorer, fr. L. adorare; ad + orare to
speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the
French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. See
Oral.]
1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors
to; to honor as a deity or as divine.
[1913 Webster]
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which
he [James II.] publicly adored. --Smollett.
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2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost
esteem and affection; to idolize.
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The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and
adored Monmouth. --Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
adoring
adj 1: showing adoration [syn: worshipful]
2: extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring
grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting
husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a
fond mother" [syn: doting, fond]
WordNet (r) 2.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "adoring":
Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant,
affectionate, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck,
believing, conjugal, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deifying,
demonstrative, devoted, devotional, devout, dutiful, faithful,
filial, fond, hero-worshiping, husbandly, idolatrous, idolizing,
imploring, in awe, in the dust, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick,
lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, on bended knee, parental,
paternal, pietistic, pious, prayerful, precative, precatory,
prostrate before, religious, reverent, reverential, romantic,
sentimental, soft, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory,
tender, theistic, uxorious, venerational, venerative, wifely,
worshipful, worshiping
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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