ADMIRE meaning: Respect and esteem someone greatly

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word admire:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

admire: Merriam-Webster
admire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
admire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
admire: Collins English Dictionary
admire: Vocabulary.com
Admire, admire: Wordnik
admire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Admire, admire: Wiktionary
admire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
admire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
admire: Infoplease Dictionary
Admire, admire: Dictionary.com
admire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Admire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Admire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
admire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
admire: Rhymezone
admire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
admire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
admire: FreeDictionary.org
admire: Mnemonic Dictionary
admire: TheFreeDictionary.com
admire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
admire: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)

admire: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
ADMIRE: Acronym Finder
admire: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

admire: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem.
▸ verb:  (US, dialectal, rare) To be enthusiastic about (doing something); to want or like (to do something). (Sometimes followed by to.)
▸ noun:  A city and town in Kansas.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in York County, Pennsylvania.

Similar:

look up to, admirize, bewonder, marvel, amaze, wonder, admirate, muse, behold, magnifie, more...

Opposite:

despise, scorn, disdain, detest, belittle

Types:

respect, esteem, look up to, be in awe of, more...

Phrases:

Our Love to Admire, more than admire, opposite of admire, to admire someone, to admire, more...

Adjectives:

much, french, less, japanese, spanish, opposite, brave, vulgar, day, chinese, valiant

Colors:

royal blue, gold, ruby red, sapphire blue, silver, more...