Admired vs Admiring - What's the difference?
admired | admiring |
(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.
admiration
* (Isaac Barrow)
* 1847 , Matthew Henry, James Hamilton, Daily communion with God
As verbs the difference between admired and admiring
is that admired is past tense of admire while admiring is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective admiring is
feeling or showing admiration.As a noun admiring is
admiration.admired
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(head)admire
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(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
Derived terms
(terms derived from admire) * admirable * admirer * admiration * admirativeAnagrams
* ----admiring
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(en noun)- What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings , than is that tragical cross
- We must keep up a constant worship of God in our families, and in our closets; we must be frequent in holy adorings and admirings of God.