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Admiring vs Effusive - What's the difference?

admiring | effusive |

As adjectives the difference between admiring and effusive

is that admiring is feeling or showing admiration while effusive is gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).

As a verb admiring

is .

As a noun admiring

is admiration.

admiring

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling or showing admiration.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • admiration
  • * (Isaac Barrow)
    • 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
  • * 1847 , Matthew Henry, James Hamilton, Daily communion with God
    • 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.

    effusive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression)
  • (archaic) pouring, spilling out freely; overflowing
  • * Alexander Pope
    • washed with the effusive wave
  • (of igneous rock) extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava

    • Derived terms

    * effusively * effusiveness