ADORED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adored mean? 

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

1. regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADORED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)

Synonyms:

adored; idolised; idolized; worshipped

Context example:

an idolized wife

Similar:

loved (held dear)

 Context examples 

You will be adored in Highbury.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I told Em'ly I adored her, and that unless she confessed she adored me I should be reduced to the necessity of killing myself with a sword.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I dare not tell your parents yet, but I think they would consent if they knew that we adored one another.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She seemed the emblem of my past life; and here I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species, your names adored as belonging to brave men who encountered death for honour and the benefit of mankind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I ought to be ashamed of myself,” she said. Then added, with the whimsical smile I adored, “but I am only one, small woman.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A strange effect of narrow principles and views! that a prince possessed of every quality which procures veneration, love, and esteem; of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning, endowed with admirable talents, and almost adored by his subjects, should, from a nice, unnecessary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people!

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

I asked her what music meant to her—you know I'm always curious to know that particular thing; and she did not know what it meant to her, except that she adored it, that it was the greatest of the arts, and that it meant more than life to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With a graver look and voice she then added, 'I do not mean to defend Henry at your sister's expense.' So she began, but how she went on, Fanny, is not fit, is hardly fit to be repeated to you. I cannot recall all her words. I would not dwell upon them if I could. Their substance was great anger at the folly of each. She reprobated her brother's folly in being drawn on by a woman whom he had never cared for, to do what must lose him the woman he adored; but still more the folly of poor Maria, in sacrificing such a situation, plunging into such difficulties, under the idea of being really loved by a man who had long ago made his indifference clear.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

One of the captivating children, who seem made to be kissed and cuddled, adorned and adored like little goddesses, and produced for general approval on all festive occasions.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)