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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. showing adoration;
[syn: adoring, worshipful]

2. extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent;
- Example: "adoring grandparents"
- Example: "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"
- Example: "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"
[syn: adoring, doting, fond]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. [1913 Webster] The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

adoring adj 1: showing adoration [syn: adoring, 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: adoring, doting, fond]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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