Word Meanings - ADMIRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance. -- Ad*mir"ing*ly, adv. Shak.

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• ADMIRED
  1. Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem. 2. Wonderful; also, admirable. "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak.
• ADMIRING
  Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance. -- Ad*mir"ing*ly, adv. Shak.
• ADMIRABLE
  1. Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness. Jer. Taylor. 2. Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used
• EXPRESSURE
  The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
• EXPRESS TRAIN
  Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
• ADMIRANCE
  Admiration. Spenser.
• EXPRESSIVE
  1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
• ADMIRAL
  A handsome butterfly of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell , the popular name of an ornamental cone shell . Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who is at the head of the naval administration of
• EXPRESSNESS
  The state or quality of being express; definiteness. Hammond.
• ADMIRABLENESS
  The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
• ADMIRE
  1. To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller. 2. To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls
• GLANCE
  A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
• EXPRESSIONAL
  Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
• EXPRESSIONLESS
  Destitute of expression.
• EXPRESSMAN
  A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.
• ADMIRATION
  1. Wonder; astonishment. Season your admiration for a while. Shak. 2. Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman,
• ADMIRABLY
  In an admirable manner.
• EXPRESSAGE
  The charge for carrying a parcel by express.
• ADMIRER
  One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly. Cowper.
• EXPRESSION
  The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs. Past expression, Beyond expression, beyond the power of description. "Beyond expression bright." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• EYEGLANCE
  A glance of eye.
• UNEXPRESSIBLE
  Inexpressible. Tillotson. -- Un`ex*press"i*bly, adv.
• OVERGLANCE
  To glance over.
• SELF-ADMIRATION
  Admiration of one's self.
• UNEXPRESSIVE
  1. Not expressive; not having the power of utterance; inexpressive. 2. Incapable of being expressed; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable. Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she. Shak. -- Un`ex*press"ive*ly,