Admirable vs Admired - What's the difference?
admirable | admired |
Deserving of the highest esteem or admiration.
(admire)
(obsolete) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
*, II.2.4:
* 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.
As an adjective admirable
is deserving of the highest esteem or admiration.As a verb admired is
past tense of admire.admirable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It's admirable that Shelley overcame her handicap and excelled in her work.
admired
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Verb
(head)admire
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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