Antonyms for admirer


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ad-mahyuhr
Phonetic Transcription : ædˈmaɪər


Definition of admirer

Origin :
  • c.1600, agent noun from admire (v.). "In common speech, a lover" [Johnson], a sense recorded from 1704.
  • noun person who holds someone in high regard
Example sentences :
  • He spoke of them more like a lover than an admirer, and told me he liked to go to them alone.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • Imogen was not coy; she would not have treated her admirer with affected disdain.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • Never would she attempt to divert a glance from her cousin's admirer.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • "As Miss Dalton's admirer, I hope rumor adds that," said she, hastily.
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Of the "empasto," so much spoken of by connoisseurs, he is an admirer.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 » by Various
  • Blanche felt flattered; but she was not thrown off the scent, as her admirer intended her to be.
  • Extract from : « Clare Avery » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • She never gave her admirer the least encouragement so far as I could see.
  • Extract from : « Schwartz: A History » by David Christie Murray
  • There was this dreadful man, Woodley, if you can call him an admirer.
  • Extract from : « The Return of Sherlock Holmes » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • At no time was the old soldier an admirer of the peaceful disciples of Fox.
  • Extract from : « The Pioneers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • That was a picture from which many an admirer shrank with horror!
  • Extract from : « A Ghetto Violet » by Leopold Kompert

Synonyms for admirer

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