admire
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (2)admires, admired, admiring
- feel admiration forSynonyms: look up toOpposite look down onMore general respect, esteemMore specific envy
- look at with admirationMore general look
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Translations
Verb regard with wonder and delight
- Spanish
- admirar
- French
- admirer
- German
- bewundern
- Italian
- ammirare
- Portuguese
- admirar
- Russian
- восхища́ться vosxiščátʹsja
- Arabic
- أُعْجِبَ ʔuʕjiba
- Chinese
- 佩服 pèifu
- Dutch
- bewonderen
- Polish
- podziwiać
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. admirer, fr. L. admirari; ad + mirari to wonder, for smirari, akin to Gr. … to smile, Skr. smi, and E. smile.
1. To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. archaic
Examples rather to be admired than imitated.— Thomas Fuller
2. To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.
Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed.— Alexander Pope
☞ Admire followed by the infinitive is obsolete or colloquial; as, I admire to see a man consistent in his conduct.
Synonyms: To esteem; approve; delight in.
To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; — sometimes with at.
To wonder at Pharaoh, and even admire at myself.— Thomas Fuller
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54