Admire vs Covet - What's the difference?
admire | covet |
(obsolete) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
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* Fuller
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.
To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
To yearn, have or indulge inordinate desire, notably for another's possession.
In transitive terms the difference between admire and covet
is that admire is to estimate or prize highly while covet is to long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).As verbs the difference between admire and covet
is that admire is to be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at while covet is to wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.admire
English
Verb
(admir)- The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […].
- examples rather to be admired than imitated
- to admire''' a person of high moral worth, to '''admire a landscape