adulate

verb

Definition of adulatenext
1
as in to adore
to love or admire too much it's ridiculous how she adulates that airheaded rock star

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2
as in to congratulate
to praise too much a business executive who unwisely surrounds herself with incompetent assistants who spend all their time adulating her

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adulate
  1. adore
  2. congratulate
  3. worship
  4. praise
  5. like
  6. applaud
  7. commend
  8. overpraise
Verb
  • In Orange, Perez adored Cheech and Chong and was joking for his family by age 13.
    Julie Seabaugh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • And her husband, Jacob (Antonio Banderas), a lauded and unaccountably hot stage director, adores her, both in the bedroom and outside it.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of adore
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  • After congratulating Malcolm on his accomplishment, Dave provides both of their families with copies of the book where Malcolm’s writing has been featured.
    Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Many celebrities congratulated the couple on social media.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of congratulate
Verb
  • Lee–one of the rare female religious heads at the time– and her followers worshipped through exuberant song and dance.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In the late 19th century, the congregation worshipped in an old mill located at the northeast corner of Preston and Broadway, and then later at Wingfield’s Blacksmith Shop at Ninth Street and Broadway.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of worship
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  • Package your client feedback The exact words clients use to praise you are so valuable in your messaging.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In 2024, culture is boring and stale due to the algorithms calling the shots on what gets produced and praised—or so the critics say.
    T.M. Brown, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of praise
Verb
  • Shore likes to use Canadian bacon for recipes that call for subtle smoke, where the lean meat is rolled or layered with a richer substance like béchamel or hollandaise and gently warmed.
    Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Quite an accomplishment All presidents like to boast about their actions, and nearly all exaggerate their positive impact on the world from time to time.
    Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of like
Verb
  • The Hill: The Congressional Black Caucus applauded Biden’s death row clemency.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Space travel enthusiasts have applauded his goal of one day placing a man on Mars.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of applaud
Verb
  • Jonathan Torres, public information officer for the L.A. County Fire, commended the swift and effective response of all involved, ensuring that the risks were mitigated effectively and efficiently.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • That's a great example of natural show evolution that worked and the producers deserve to be commended for it.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of commend
Verb
  • Know-nothings pretend that Schrader’s Bressonian mannerisms reveal the spiritual depths of contemporary crisis, when, in fact, Master Gardener repeats the same social-collapse paranoia that made secular reviewers overpraise the religious, racial, suicide-bomber topics of First Reformed.
    Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2023
  • He’s overpraised of course.
    Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
Definition of overpraise
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“Adulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulate. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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