Dote vs Admire - What's the difference?
dote | admire |
To be excessively fond of.
(archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
* Dryden
* South
(Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
* Ted’s daughter is such a dote .
(obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
(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 dote and admire
is that dote is while admire is .dote
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Alternative forms
* doat (obsolete)Verb
(dot)- Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
- Time has made you dote , and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
- He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
Synonyms
* (to be fond of) adore, loveNoun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
Anagrams
* ----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