admires
verbHow many syllables in admires?
There are 2 syllables in the word admires.How to pronounce admires:
Definition of admires:
- admires (verb):
- to respect and approve of (a person or thing)
- to feel respect and approval for (someone or something) to regard with admiration
Synonyms for admires:
adores
applauds
appreciate
appreciates
approve of
approves
big up
commends
considers
enjoys
esteem
esteems
have a good or high opinion of
honour
likes
loves
praise
praises
prize
regards
respect
respects
revere
reveres
take your hat off to
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Antonyms for admires:
abhors
animadverts
balks at
blames
censures
chastises
condemns
contemns
criticises
criticizes
decries
denounces
deplores
deprecates
derides
despises
detests
disapproves
disapproves of
discommends
discountenances
disesteems
disfavors
disfavours
dishonors
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- shuttling
- sharpened
- jut out
- Dorren
- coxswain
- connote
- bazoo
- yellowed
- tableau
- stairway
- runback
- loosened
- honking
- fortnight
- doodling
- chanting
- squirted
- collate
- chortle
- bookshop
- Seamus
- renamed
- Nietzsche
- shortened
- revolved
- loudest
- freezing
- erstwhile
- endures
- belies
- whisking
- foreshore
- ani
- unharmed
- subhead
- rostrum
- recapped
- ported
- Jordell
- goaded
- darted
- anoil
- vices
- permeates
- flinching
- unpinned
- scrubby
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