Adore: Meaning, Examples, and How to Use It

Meaning 1：Love deeply (Adore)

Adore 🔊

/əˈdɔːr/

To love and respect someone or something very much, often in a way that you admire them deeply.

Child hugging teddy bear with adore expression

Love deeply 🔊

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/lʌv ˈdiːpli/

To feel deep, passionate love and admiration for someone or something, often with a sense of reverence.

📁 Category：Behaviors & Actions 🔖 Level：Intermediate

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

Latin 'adorare': 'ad' (to) + 'orare' (pray), originally 'to pray to'.

💡 Mnemonic

Remember 'a door' — when you adore someone, you open every door for them.

📖 Example

My daughter adores her grandma because she always bakes the most delicious cookies for her. 🔊 My daughter adores her grandma because she always bakes the most delicious cookies for her.

🔗 Collocations

adore someone – To deeply love and admire a person

adore something – To have great affection for something

adore doing something – To enjoy doing something very much

🔄 Synonyms

love (v.) – To feel intense affection for someone or something

admire (v.) – To regard with respect or warm approval

worship (v.) – To feel or show intense reverence and adoration

🚫 Antonyms

hate (v.) – To feel intense dislike or aversion

despise (v.) – To feel contempt or disgust for

loathe (v.) – To feel strong dislike or disgust

🌱 Derivatives

adoration (n.) – Deep love and respect

adorable (adj.) – Deserving adoration; cute

adoring (adj.) – Showing adoration

📖 Cultural Story

Originally meaning 'to worship a deity' from Latin 'adorare', used in religious context. Over centuries, it softened to express deep love and admiration for people or things.