IDOLIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does idolized mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDOLIZED (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 

I told her that I idolized and worshipped her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I hardly know how it has happened; a little, perhaps, from that wickedness on my side which was prone to take disgust towards a girl so idolized and so cried up as she always was, by her aunt and grandmother, and all their set.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The same books, the same passages were idolized by each—or if any difference appeared, any objection arose, it lasted no longer than till the force of her arguments and the brightness of her eyes could be displayed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)