Meaning & use
adoring someone
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Meanings
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Loving and admiring a person very much, often in a warm or romantic way.
Grammar: Use it after verbs like 'be' or 'enjoy': 'She enjoys adoring someone who treats her well.'
Patterns
- be adoring someone
- adoring someone from afar
He has been adoring someone in his class for months but has never spoken to her.
Adoring someone from a distance can feel safe, but it rarely leads to a real relationship.
She wrote a song about adoring someone who doesn't know she exists.
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Showing great love and respect for a person through your behavior.
Grammar: Often used as a description of a person's attitude: 'an adoring look', 'adoring fans'.
Patterns
- adoring someone's fans
- with an adoring look at someone
The singer waved to the crowd, adoring someone in the front row by blowing a kiss.
He gave his grandmother an adoring smile as she told the old family stories.
Common combinations
- be adoring someone
- She is adoring someone she met on holiday, but it may just be a summer romance.
- adoring fans
- The actor was surrounded by adoring fans at the airport.
- adoring look
- He gave his wife an adoring look when she walked into the room.
- adoring someone from afar
- He spent years adoring someone from afar before finally asking her out.
Synonyms and how they differ
- loving
- More general and less intense; you can love a friend or a pet, but adoring someone suggests deep admiration.
- worshipping
- Stronger and sometimes disapproving; it can suggest blind devotion, while adoring is usually warmer and more positive.
- cherishing
- Focuses on protecting and valuing someone; adoring emphasizes admiration and affection more than care.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: adoring someone or adoring? adoring someone or adorn?
adoring someone vs adoring
As an adjective, 'adoring' describes someone who adores, e.g. 'an adoring mother'. The phrase 'adoring someone' is about the action of adoring a particular person.
adoring someone vs adorn
To adorn means to decorate something. It sounds similar but has no connection to love or admiration.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'adoring someone' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Adoring someone' is a phrase where 'someone' is the object of the verb 'adore', so no preposition is needed. Option 1 correctly uses the continuous form with a direct object. Option 2 wrongly adds 'to' and uses the wrong verb form. Option 3 is ungrammatical because 'adoring' needs the verb 'be' before it. Option 4 is missing the auxiliary verb 'is'.
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