MEANING
1. Very deep love or admiration for someone, often expressed with little reserve.
2. The act of worshipping or offering reverence to a divine being.
Use it for
showing love that approaches idealization; describing a devoted gaze without dialogue; contrasting unguarded admiration with a more critical relationshipDistinguishes profound personal admiration from religious worship without treating either as a small degree of ordinary approval. Writing functions: Love / Reverence.
Words that belong together
- look with adoration
- uncritical adoration
- a look of adoration
On the page
The dog watched her with an adoration no human argument could have deserved.
He had grown accustomed to adoration and mistook her questions for hostility.
The chapel remained open for silent adoration after the service.
The poem turns from petition to adoration, asking for nothing in return.
Word forms
- Base
- adoration
Usage notes
Normally uncountable. Adoration for someone; look at someone with adoration. Do not invent a routine plural for the feeling. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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