| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard highly |
Synonyms: |
be crazy about, be fond of, cherish, desire, enjoy, find congenial, hold dear, like, love, prize, respect, take to, want |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, not care |
| Main Entry: | cherish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care about deeply |
Synonyms: |
admire, adore, appreciate, apprize, care for, clasp, cleave to, cling to, coddle, comfort, cosset, cultivate, defend, dote on, embrace, encourage, enshrine, entertain, fancy, fondle, foster, guard, harbor, hold dear, hold in high esteem, honor, hug, idolize, like, love, nourish, nurse, nurture, pet, preserve, prize, revere, reverence, safeguard, shelter, shield, support, sustain, treasure, value, venerate, worship |
| Notes: | cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with nourishment |
Antonyms: |
abandon, denounce, forsake, not care, renounce |
| Main Entry: | dote on/dote upon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lavish affection on |
Synonyms: |
admire, adore, be fond of, be infatuated with, be sweet on, cherish, enjoy, fancy, hold dear, idolize, like, love, pet, prize, treasure, worship |
Antonyms: |
ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | esteem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think highly of |
Synonyms: |
admire, appreciate, apprise, be fond of, cherish, consider, hold dear, honor, idolize, like, look up to, love, prize, regard, regard highly, respect, revere, reverence, think the world of, treasure, value, venerate, worship |
Antonyms: |
abuse, dislike, disregard, disrespect, hate, insult, mock, ridicule |
| Main Entry: | like |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enjoy, be fond of |
Synonyms: |
admire, adore, appreciate, approve, be gratified by, be keen on, be partial to, be pleased by, be sweet on, care for, care to, cherish, delight in, derive pleasure from, dig*, dote on, esteem, exclaim, fancy, feast on, find appealing, get a kick out of, go for, hanker for, hold dear, indulge in, love, luxuriate in, prize, rejoice in, relish, revel in, savor, stuck on, take an interest in, take delight in, take satisfaction in, take to |
Antonyms: |
despise, dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | love |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adore, like very much |
Synonyms: |
admire, adulate, be attached to, be captivated by, be crazy about, be enamored of, be enchanted by, be fascinated with, be fond of, be in love with, canonize, care for, cherish, choose, deify, delight in, dote on, esteem, exalt, fall for, fancy, glorify, go for, gone on, have affection for, have it bad, hold dear, hold high, idolize, long for, lose one's heart to, prefer, prize, put on pedestal, think the world of, thrive with, treasure, venerate, wild for, worship |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, scorn |
| Main Entry: | prize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | value highly |
Synonyms: |
appreciate, apprize, cherish, count, enshrine, esteem, guard, hold dear, rate, regard highly, set store by, treasure |
Antonyms: |
despise, dislike, hate, not care |
| Main Entry: | remember |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep in mind; summon into mind |
Synonyms: |
bear in mind, bethink, brood over, call to mind, call up, cite, commemorate, conjure up, dig into the past, dwell upon, educe, elicit, enshrine, extract, fix in the mind, flash on, get, go back, have memories, hold dear, keep forever, know by heart, learn, look back, memorialize, memorize, mind, nail down, recall, recognize, recollect, refresh memory, relive, remind, reminisce, retain, retrospect, revive, revoke, ring a bell, strike a note, summon up, think back, treasure |
Antonyms: |
disregard, forget |
| Main Entry: | dote on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lavish |
Synonyms: |
admire, adore, cherish, dote upon, enjoy, fancy, hold dear, idolize, like, love, pet, prize, treasure, worship |
Antonyms: |
brush aside, disregard, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | love |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
little, adorable, affectionate, after one's fancy, after one's mind, after one's own heart, after one's taste, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attractive, beloved, bewitching, bitten, bloten, brokenhearted, captivating, charmed, charming, congenial, darling, dear, dear as the apple of one's eye, dearly beloved, dendrophilous, devoted, enamored, enchanting, engaging, erotic, fascinating, favorite, fond of, glutolatrous, heartsick, in love, in one's good graces, interesting, lexicomanic, like an angel, lovable, loved, lovelorn, lovely, lovesick, loving, moonstruck, motherly, mulierose, nearest to one's heart, nemophilous, ornithophilous, over head and ears in love, pandemic, paphian, passionate, pet, philogynous, philophilosophos, philoprogenitive, photophilous, plagose, popular, potamophilous, precious, pygal, pygophilous, rapturous, romantic, sapid, seductive, smitten, struck with, sweet, sweet upon, sympathetic, taken with, tender, tid, to one's fancy, to one's mind, to one's own heart, to one's taste, true, unfaithful, uxorious, veneficial, wedded to, well, zoophiliac
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