ADMIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does admired mean? 

• ADMIRED (adjective)
  The adjective ADMIRED has 1 sense:

1. regarded with admiration

  Familiarity information: ADMIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regarded with admiration

Similar:

loved (held dear)

 Context examples 

To be admired, loved, and respected.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

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

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The kitchen-garden was to be next admired, and he led the way to it across a small portion of the park.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was attractive, she was modest, she was Sir Thomas's niece, and she was soon said to be admired by Mr. Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was evident that the gentleman, (completely a gentleman in manner) admired her exceedingly.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

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

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They went wholly by holding the irons close to their cheeks, gauging the heat by some secret mental process that Martin admired but could not understand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You would have admired him as much as we all do.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My remedy was to cut them in pieces with my knife, as they flew in the air, wherein my dexterity was much admired.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers—their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions; but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)