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Adore vs. Worship — What's the Difference?

Adore vs. Worship — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Adore and Worship

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Adore

Love and respect (someone) deeply
He adored his mother

Worship

Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity. For many, worship is not about an emotion, it is more about a recognition of a God.

Adore

Worship; venerate
He adored the Sacred Host

Worship

The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.

Adore

To worship as God or a god.
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Worship

The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed
A chapel where worship is held daily.

Adore

To love (someone) deeply and devotedly.

Worship

Ardent admiration or love; adoration
The worship of celebrities.

Adore

To worship.

Worship

Often Worship Chiefly British Used as a form of address for magistrates, mayors, and certain other dignitaries
Your Worship.

Adore

To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.

Worship

To honor and love as a deity.

Adore

To be very fond of.

Worship

To regard with ardent or adoring esteem or devotion.

Adore

(obsolete) To adorn.

Worship

The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
Polytheistic theology and worship had to go underground.

Adore

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a deity or as divine.
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James II.] publicly adored.

Worship

The adoration owed to God alone, as greater than the veneration that may be accorded to figures such as saints.

Adore

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.

Worship

The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.

Adore

To adorn.
Congealed little drops which do the morn adore.

Worship

(by extension) Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.

Adore

Love intensely;
He just adored his wife

Worship

(also by extension) Ardent love.

Worship

An object of worship.

Worship

Honour; respect; civil deference.

Worship

Used as a title or term of address for various officials, including magistrates

Worship

(obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.

Worship

(transitive) To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.

Worship

(transitive) To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.

Worship

(intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.
We worship at the church down the road.

Worship

Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
A man of worship and honour.
Elfin, born of noble state,And muckle worship in his native land.

Worship

Honor; respect; civil deference.
Of which great worth and worship may be won.
Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

Worship

Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
My father desires your worships' company.

Worship

The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.
The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.

Worship

Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair,Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,That can my spirits to your worship.

Worship

An object of worship.
In attitude and aspect formed to beAt once the artist's worship and despair.

Worship

To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
Our grave . . . shall have a tongueless mouth,Not worshiped with a waxen epitaph.
This holy image that is man God worshipeth.

Worship

To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
But God is to be worshiped.
When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.

Worship

To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
With bended knees I daily worship her.

Worship

To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Was it for this I have loved . . . and worshiped in silence?

Worship

The activity of worshipping

Worship

A feeling of profound love and admiration

Worship

Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol;
Many teenagers idolized the Beatles

Worship

Show devotion to (a deity);
Many Hindus worship Shiva

Worship

Attend religious services;
They worship in the traditional manner

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