adore

adore
adore 1 worship, venerate, *revere, reverence
Analogous words: laud, *praise, extol: *exalt, magnify
Antonyms: blaspheme
Contrasted words: *execrate, curse
2 Adore, worship, idolize in their nonreligious senses mean to love or admire excessively.
Adore commonly implies emotional surrender to the charms or attractions of an object of love or admiration; it often connotes extreme adulation if the object of love is a person
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this inability . . . to project his personality is a serious weakness in a country which likes to adore its leaders— Doty

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With other objects it may connote no more than a hearty liking
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like gourmets and yellow flies, sows adore eating truffles— Lauber

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Worship usually implies more extravagant admiration or more servile attentions than adore; it also commonly connotes an awareness of one’s own inferiority or of one’s distance from the object of one’s love
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he worships his wife

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small boys who worship astronauts

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Idolize often implies absurdly excessive admiration or doting love
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idolizing money in life and poetry—New School Bulletin

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Sometimes, however, it comes very close to adore
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a spoiled child is often one that has been idolized by his parents

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Analogous words: love, dote (see LIKE): admire, esteem (see under REGARD n)
Antonyms: detest
Contrasted words: *hate, loathe, abhor, abominate: *despise, scorn, contemn, disdain

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