If you hold someone in high esteem or look up to someone, you admire that person. If you ask four year olds who they most admire, they are likely to list their mom, dad, and grandparents or superheroes and comic book characters.
To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
Verb
feel admiration for
Verb
look at with admiration
v. t.
To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with
surprise; to marvel at.
v. t.
To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an
elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation,
esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire
a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.
v. i.
To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; --
sometimes with at.
Admire
Examples rather to be admired than imitated.2.
Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed.
Admire
To wonder at Pharaoh, and even admire at myself.
To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.
Usage Examples
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.
CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
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Other Usage ExamplesI admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
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