ADMIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does admire mean? 

• ADMIRE (verb)
  The verb ADMIRE has 2 senses:

1. feel admiration for

2. look at with admiration

  Familiarity information: ADMIRE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMIRE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they admire    ... he / she / it admires   
Past simple: admired   
Past participle: admired   
-ing form: admiring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel admiration for

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

admire; look up to

Hypernyms (to "admire" is one way to...):

esteem; prise; prize; respect; value (regard highly; think much of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "admire"):

envy (feel envious towards; admire enviously)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

look down on (regard with contempt)

Derivation:

admiration (a feeling of delighted approval and liking)

admirer (someone who admires a young woman)

admirer (a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves)

admirer (a person who backs a politician or a team etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Look at with admiration

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "admire" is one way to...):

look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot admire Sue

Derivation:

admirer (someone who admires a young woman)

admirer (a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves)

 Context examples 

You don't remember your own eloquent expressions, Master Copperfield; but I remember how you said one day that everybody must admire her, and how I thanked you for it!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His manner might sometimes surprise, but his meaning must always be just: and what she did not understand, she was almost as ready to admire, as what she did.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

No, admitted Charles, I do not know that he ever does, in a general way; but however, it is a very clear thing that he admires you exceedingly.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the Netherfield party.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

No, it wouldn't, returned Jo, I neither like, respect, nor admire Tudor, though his grandfather's uncle's nephew's niece was a third cousin to a lord.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“If Miss Bertram were not engaged,” said Fanny cautiously, “I could sometimes almost think that he admired her more than Julia.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was a task requiring the utmost nicety and precision, and I could not but admire the way he tempered his strength to the fineness and delicacy of the need.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I cannot admire his taste,” I remarked, “if it is indeed a fact that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as this Miss Turner.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wondered, as I looked at this fair creature: I admired her with my whole heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a dominant spirit asserted itself.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)