Word Study
adoring
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective adoring has 2 senses
- adoring(s = adj.all) worshipful - showing adoration; Array
- adoring(s = adj.all) doting, fond - extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"
CIDE DICTIONARY
adoring, adj.
- feeling or showing profound respect or veneration. Opposite of
irreverent . [WordNet 1.5] - feeling or showing a deep love and devotion to. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
adoring
Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, affectionate, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, believing, conjugal, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deifying, demonstrative, devoted, devotional, devout, dutiful, faithful, filial, fond, hero-worshiping, husbandly, idolatrous, idolizing, imploring, in awe, in the dust, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, on bended knee, parental, paternal, pietistic, pious, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, religious, reverent, reverential, romantic, sentimental, soft, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, tender, theistic, uxorious, venerational, venerative, wifely, worshipful, worshiping
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