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Definitions: Adoring |
AdoringAdjective1. Showing adoration. 2. Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adoring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: AdoringSynonyms: doting (adj), fond (adj), worshipful (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Adoring |
| English words defined with "adoring": Adorement ♦ idolatrous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adoring": Canal ♦ Devotion ♦ Grain. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "adoring": Adorement. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Adoring an Ad (1910) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They were adoring each other. |
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| "Adoring" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.93% of the time. "Adoring" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75.93% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 24.07% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adoring": adoring glances ♦ adoring look. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "adoring": less-adoring, self-adoring. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adoring | 35 |
adoring you.com | 12 |
adoring greeting | 4 |
adoring u.com | 2 |
adoring com | 2 |
adoring card greeting | 2 |
adoring card | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adoring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 崇拜 (Adoration, Adore, adored, Cult, Deified, Deify, Deifying, Worship, Worshiped, Worshiping, Worshipped, Worshipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zamilovaný (amorous, falling in love, favorite, favourite, in love). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adorant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verehrend (enshrining, revering, venerating, worshipful, worshipfully), anbetend (hallowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γεμάτοσ λατρείασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 私淑 (looking up to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ししゅく (lodging, looking up to, putting up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경앙. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adoringay adorador (adorer, worshipper). (various references) adorator (admirer, adorer, beau, suitor, worshipper, worshipping). (various references) любящий (affectionate, affectionately, amatory, fond, loving), преклоняющийся, поклоняющийся. (various references) lleno de adoración, cariñoso (affable, affectionate, amorous, endearing, fond, kind, kindly, loving, warm). (various references) beundrande (idolatrous). (various references) aşk dolu (amative, amatory, loving), sevgi dolu (full of love, soft, warmhearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "adoring": adoringly. (additional references) | |
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"Adoring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aderyn, adorking, adoting, aloring, Amorin, Ardouin, Audouin, avoring, dairing, Davorin, doring, Javorina. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adoring" (pronounced udô"ring) |
| 4 | -ô" r i ng | boring, deploring, exploring, flooring, Goring, ignoring, imploring, outpouring, poring, pouring, restoring, roaring, scoring, shoring, snoring, soaring, storing, underscoring, warring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, airing, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, fearing, firing, flaring, gearing, glaring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, impairing, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, retiring, scaring, scarring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, smearing, snaring, sneering, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, wearing, wiring. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: daring, dragon, ganoid, gradin, inroad, oaring, onagri, ordain, origan. | |
-2 letters: adorn, argon, aroid, danio, dinar, dingo, doing, donga, drain, garni, giron, gonad, gonia, grain, grand, grind, groan, groin, nadir, noria, orang, organ, radio, radon, ranid. | |
-3 letters: agin, agio, agon, airn, arid, dago, dang, darn, ding, dona, dong, drag, gadi, gain, gird, girn, giro, gnar, goad, grad, gran, grid, grin, inro, iron, naoi, nard, nodi, noir, nori, orad, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, rind, ring, road, roan. | |
-4 letters: ado, ago, aid, ain, air, and, ani, dag, dig, din, dog, don, dor, gad, gan, gar, gid, gin, goa, god, gor, ion, nag, nod, nog, nor, oar, ora, rad, rag, ran, ria, rid, rig, rin, rod. | |
-5 letters: ad, ag, ai, an, ar, do, go, id, in, na, no, od, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: adorning, boarding, hoarding, organdie, radioing, rigadoon, rigaudon. | |
+2 letters: according, adoringly, adsorbing, affording, boardings, brocading, corrading, dogearing, dragonish, girandole, gradation, grandiose, grandioso, granitoid, hoardings, indagator, ordaining, organdies, organised, organized, outdaring, pardoning, parodying, reloading, rigadoons, rigaudons, sangfroid, signboard. | |
+3 letters: adjourning, androgenic, bombarding, broadening, coadmiring, corrigenda, decorating, denigrator, derogating, derogation, designator, dragooning, fairground, foredating, forwarding, gadrooning, garrisoned, girandoles, gormandise, gormandize, gradations, graduation, indagators, jaguarondi, jargonized, jeoparding, longhaired, moderating, mordanting, nonreading, originated, outdrawing, outreading, outtrading, overdaring, overlading, pollarding, poniarding, radiogenic, ramrodding, readopting, readorning, reboarding, sangfroids, signboards, uphoarding. | |
+4 letters: accordingly, aggradation, airdropping, androgynies, becowarding, broadsiding, cardiogenic, copyreading, degradation, denigration, denigrators, denigratory, derogations, designators, designatory, disfavoring, disorganize, downgrading, dragonflies, endeavoring, fairgrounds, fingerboard, freeloading, gadroonings, gormandised, gormandises, gormandized, gormandizer, gormandizes, gourmandise, gourmandism, gourmandize, gradational, graduations, grandiflora, grandiosely, grandiosity, hardworking, invigorated, jaguarondis, keyboarding, motorcading, outdragging, outdreaming, overdrawing, overgoading, overhanding, overloading, overtrading, preadopting, promenading, railroading, randomizing, reordaining, reorganized, roadholding, ropedancing, springboard, squadroning, unorganized, woodcarving. | |
+5 letters: aggradations, androgenesis, androgenetic, backdropping, barricadoing, billboarding, biodegrading, boardsailing, broadcasting, carbonadoing, clapboarding, coordinating, crossbanding, deflagration, degeneration, degradations, degringolade, demoralizing, denigrations, depolarizing, deprograming, deregulation, digressional, disaccording, disapproving, discouraging, disorganized, disorganizes, dopaminergic, edulcorating, endeavouring, fingerboards, fluoridating, godfathering, gonadotropic, gonadotropin, gormandising, gormandizers, gormandizing, gourmandises, gourmandisms, gourmandized, gourmandizes, grandiflorae, grandifloras, granodiorite, hydroplaning, interrogated, jeopardising, jeopardizing, micromanaged, nonirrigated, outbargained, outorganized, outspreading, overhandling, overpedaling, paradropping, preordaining, proofreading, propagandist, propagandize, railroadings, redecorating, regionalized, renegotiated, retrograding, rhapsodizing, roadblocking, roadholdings, ropedancings, sailboarding, snowboarding, springboards, starboarding, surfboarding, undercoating, unglamorized, woodcarvings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 6F 72 69 6E 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. --- .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d o r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 006F 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35708184758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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