- admireI've always admired her for her generous spirit.
- respectI respect her for what she has achieved, but I would have approached it very differently.
- think highly ofEveryone thinks highly of him.
- hold someone in high esteemHer colleagues in Washington hold her in very high esteem.
- hold someone in high regardHe contributed much to the life of York, and was held in high regard there.
- look up toShe was my older sister and I looked up to her.
Meaning of adulate in English
Examples of adulate
adulate
The mask of ageing speaks to the repression and denial of old age and mortality in a society that adulates youthfulness.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This country's glorious and wonderful system has been copied and adulated throughout the world.
From the
Hansard archive
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It was being adulated as frightfully sophisticated, clever and funny.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The universally adulated individual assessment suddenly does not apply to national people's representatives.
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