Dictionary Definition
adoring adj
1 showing adoration [syn: worshipful]
2 extravagantly or foolishly loving and
indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and
doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond
mother" [syn: doting,
fond]
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English
Verb
adoring- present participle of adore
Adjective
- Showing adoration or admiration.
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, affectionate, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, believing, conjugal, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deifying, demonstrative, devoted, devotional, devout, dutiful, faithful, filial, fond, hero-worshiping, husbandly, idolatrous, idolizing, imploring, in awe, in the
dust, languishing,
lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, on bended knee,
parental, paternal, pietistic, pious, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before,
religious, reverent, reverential, romantic, sentimental, soft, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, tender, theistic, uxorious, venerational, venerative, wifely, worshipful, worshiping