Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: adoring
IPA transcription: [əd'ɔɹɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: adoring, doting, fond
    Meaning: extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"
  • Synonyms: adoring, worshipful
    Meaning: showing adoration
Usage examples
  • Then she nestled them against her warm breast, and turned adoring eyes toward the Cardinal.
  • At length, in indignation and despair, the prince exclaimed, "Verily, these gods that I am adoring, what are they but idols of stone without speech or feeling?
  • It confines itself to sentiments about life as a whole, sentiments which may be admiring and adoring, but which need not be so, as the existence of systematic pessimism proves.
  • He almost strained his voice trying to rival the love-song of a skylark that hung among the clouds above a meadow across the river, and poured down to his mate a story of adoring love and sympathy.