0 to admire or praise someone very much, especially when this is more than is deserved:
The mask of ageing speaks to the repression and denial of old age and mortality in a society that adulates youthfulness.
This country's glorious and wonderful system has been copied and adulated throughout the world.
It was being adulated as frightfully sophisticated, clever and funny.
The universally adulated individual assessment suddenly does not apply to national people's representatives.