Other forms: adored, adoring, adores
To adore is to love somebody very deeply. Adore his children, she adores him, I adore it.
It carries worship in it — the Latin means to pray to — which is why adoring a person suggests something close to reverence. In casual speech it has weakened to mean simply like very much. Note adoration and adorable beside it.
1verbadoreTo love somebody very deeply.
“She adores her grandchildren and visits them every weekend.”
adore is a loving.
Latin adorare means to pray to — ad, to, plus orare, to speak or pray. Oracle comes from the same speaking.
Latin
adōrō — to pray to
Old French
adorer
Middle English
*adoren
English, today
adore
Built from
From Middle English adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin adōrō (“to pray to”), from ad (“to”) + ōrō (“to speak”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA