adoring
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (2)
- showing adorationSynonyms: worshipful
- extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent“adoring grandparents”“deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain”“hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother”Synonyms: dotingfond
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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]
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]