Enjoyed vs Adored - What's the difference?
enjoyed | adored |
(enjoy)
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To have the use or benefit of something.
* Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8
* 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
To have sexual intercourse with.
(adore)
To worship.
*(Tobias Smollett) (1721–1771)
*:Bishops and priests,bearing the host, which he [James] publicly adored .
To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
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* (1800-1859)
*:The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth.
To be very fond of.
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*:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
(lb) To adorn.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Like to the hore / Congealed drops, which do the morn adore .
As verbs the difference between enjoyed and adored
is that enjoyed is (enjoy) while adored is (adore).enjoyed
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(head)enjoy
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(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
- This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
- (Milton)