admirate

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verb

To admire.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbadmirate (third-person singular simple present admirates, present participle admirating, simple past and past participle admirated)

present singular third person admirates · participle present admirating · participle past admirated · past admirated

  1. non-native speakers' EnglishTo admire.

    We are very admirating of him in France.

    2000 July 24, Hugette.Lespine, “Croats, Serbs and Muslims”, in alt.fifty-plus.friends (Usenet), retrieved 21 Apr 2022
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    I admirate Oprah's capital gains, but as far as her moral life, well, she's a fat whore!

    2000 February 14, schles...@my-deja.com, “Dr. Laura and Oprah”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet), retrieved 21 Apr 2022

    In fact, Miles went into jazz-rock-funk by deeply participating to create this musical movement end of 60s. So, during this period, he mixed influnces^([sic]) from Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone in jazz and was admirating those musicians.

    2004 April 13, dom's, “What's on the cd player”, in alt.music.led-zeppelin (Usenet), retrieved 21 Apr 2022

    Yes, but that means that Robin's link is incorrect! (But that does not prevent me from admirating Robin's actions for TeX stuff.)

    2010 June 21, Merciadri Luca, “Animated trees”, in comp.text.tex (Usenet), retrieved 21 Apr 2022

Origin

Back-formation from admiration. Equivalent to admire + -ate.

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APA

admirate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/admirate

MLA

“admirate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/admirate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “admirate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/admirate.

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