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admiration
[ ad-muh-rey-shuhn ]
noun
- a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
Synonyms: , , ,
Antonyms:
- the act of looking on or contemplating with pleasure:
admiration of fine paintings.
- an object of wonder, pleasure, or approval:
The dancer was the admiration of everyone.
- Archaic. wonder; astonishment.
admiration
/ ˌæ峾əˈɪʃə /
noun
- pleasurable contemplation or surprise
- a person or thing that is admired
she was the admiration of the court
- archaic.wonder
Other 51Թ Forms
- ···پ [ad-, mahy, -r, uh, -tiv, ad-m, uh, -, rey, -], adjective
- ·۲·پ· adverb
- -m·tDz noun
- p·m·tDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of admiration1
Idioms and Phrases
see mutual admiration society .Example Sentences
Pope Francis, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic Church and drew widespread admiration from outsiders, has died.
Her students speak of "fierce admiration" for her.
And yet, by film’s end, we’re left with smiling admiration for its peculiarity and artistry instead of a catharsis, because too much of “The Legend of Ochi” feels like a presentation.
Far from it: Nadel, a museum curator and comics expert, expresses palpable admiration for Crumb, and sympathy for a peripatetic upbringing that could quietly be as macabre as anything he drew.
But admiration is not the essence of the show.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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