0 past simple and past participle of admire --
1 to find someone or something attractive and pleasant to look at: --
I really admire people who can work in such difficult conditions.
I admired him for his determination.
Although she admired the ability to care for others, it was not a quality which she would attribute to herself.
He was not a figure universally admired by his contemporaries.
The capacity of such persons to make others jump is both feared and admired.
Its result was admired by many for its picturesque qualities + not one house resembled the neighbouring premises in building style and ornament.
Songs were their way of communicating their thoughts, values, tastes and ideas - what books, poets and musicians they admired and so on.
Schoolgirls appeared to be in love with him, men admired him and his creator was inundated with fan letters.
Artists whose work is most admired are those who are perceived as having made a genuine and disinterested contribution to culture, society, or individual well-being.
He is deservedly admired, by both theoreticians and applied economists, for his work in industrial economics.
