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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
Related Words
Main Entry: love
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
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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