Word Meanings - ADORABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne. 2. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
Related words: (words related to ADORABLE)
- ADORABILITY
Adorableness. - DESERVEDNESS
Meritoriousness. - ADORE
adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2. - ADORNINGLY
By adorning; decoratively. - ADORNATION
Adornment. - DESERVE
1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John - ADORN
Adorned; decorated. Milton. - RESPECT
An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the - RESPECTER
One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. - DIVINER
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one - DESERVEDLY
According to desert ; justly. - ADOREMENT
The act of adoring; adoration. Sir T. Browne. - DIVINE
1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines." Denham. 2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge. - ADORNMENT
An adorning; an ornament; a decoration. - DESERVING
Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift. - WORTHY
A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. The blood of ancient worthies - DIVINELY
1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay. - AUTHORITY
1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority - AUTHORESS
A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male. - ADORNER
He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion. - PEGADOR
A species of remora . See Remora. - BY-RESPECT
Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden. - AMBASSADORIAL
Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole. - UNDESERVER
One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak. - UNRESPECT
Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall. - NEO-CHRISTIANITY
Rationalism. - INAUTHORITATIVE
Without authority; not authoritative. - DISRESPECT
Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.