Adulate vs Admire - What's the difference?
adulate | admire |
To flatter effusively
(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 verbs the difference between adulate and admire
is that adulate is to flatter effusively while admire is .adulate
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(adulat)Derived terms
* adulation * adulator * adulatory ----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