Glorified vs Admired - What's the difference?
glorified | admired |
(glorify)
transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically)
:* The gyroscope is however merely a glorified spinning top ...
:* Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation.
:* If the captain was only a glorified first aid man as he claimed, the emphasis has to be on the glory he deserved for the way in which he did his job.
English sarcastic terms
(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.
As verbs the difference between glorified and admired
is that glorified is (glorify) while admired is (admire).As an adjective glorified
is transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically).glorified
English
Verb
(head)- They sang hymns that glorified God.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her teaching degree was little more than a glorified babysitting course.
- 1959 Andrew Gray, "A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion"
- 1986 Roy Lubove, "The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935"
- 2004 Lloyd Manning Wells, "From Anzio to the Alps: an American soldier's story"
admired
English
Verb
(head)admire
English
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
