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adoring 音標拼音: [əd'ɔrɪŋ] a. 崇拜的,敬慕的 崇拜的,敬慕的 adoring adj 1: showing adoration [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { adoring}, { doting}, { fond}] 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] 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
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