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applied to fluid or semi-fluid substances, as pitch or tar.

      Antonyms:

free,

inadhesive,

loose,

separable.

      Preposition:

      The stiff, wet clay, adhesive to the foot, impeded progress.

ADJACENT.

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      Synonyms:

abutting,	bordering,	contiguous,	neighboring,
adjoining,	close,	coterminous,	next,
attached,	conterminous,	near,	nigh.
beside,

      Adjacent farms may not be connected; if adjoining, they meet at the boundary-line. Conterminous would imply that their dimensions were exactly equal on the side where they adjoin. Contiguous may be used for either adjacent or adjoining. Abutting refers rather to the end of one building or estate than to the neighborhood of another. Buildings may be adjacent or adjoining that are not attached. Near is a relative word, places being called near upon the railroad which would elsewhere be deemed remote. Neighboring always implies such proximity that the inhabitants[23] may be neighbors. Next views some object as the nearest of several or many; next neighbor implies a neighborhood.

      Antonyms:

detached,

disconnected,

disjoined,

distant,

remote,

separate.

      Preposition:

      The farm was adjacent to the village.

ADMIRE.

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      Synonyms:

adore,	delight in,	extol,	respect,	venerate,
applaud,	enjoy,	honor,	revere,	wonder.
approve,	esteem,	love,

      In the old sense of wonder, admire is practically obsolete; the word now expresses a delight and approval, in which the element of wonder unconsciously mingles. We admire beauty in nature and art, delight in the innocent happiness of children, enjoy books or society, a walk or a dinner. We approve what is excellent, applaud heroic deeds, esteem the good, love our friends. We honor and respect noble character wherever found; we revere and venerate it in the aged. We extol the goodness and adore the majesty and power of God.

      Antonyms:

abhor,	contemn,	detest,	execrate,	ridicule,
abominate,	despise,	dislike,	hate,	scorn.

      Preposition:

      Admire at may still very rarely be found in the old sense of wonder at.

ADORN.

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      Synonyms:

beautify,	decorate,	garnish,	illustrate,
bedeck,	embellish,	gild,	ornament.
deck,

      To embellish is to brighten and enliven by adding something that is not necessarily or very closely connected with that to which it is added; to illustrate is to add something so far like in kind as to cast a side-light upon the principal matter. An author embellishes his narrative with fine descriptions, the artist illustrates it with beautiful engravings, the binder gilds and decorates the volume. Garnish is on a lower plane; as, the feast was garnished with flowers. Deck and bedeck are commonly said of apparel; as, a mother bedecks her daughter with silk and jewels. To adorn and to ornament alike signify to add that which makes anything beautiful and attractive, but ornament is more exclusively on the material plane; as, the gateway was ornamented with delicate[24] carving. Adorn is more lofty and spiritual, referring to a beauty which is not material, and can not be put on by ornaments or decorations, but seems in perfect harmony and unity with that to which it adds a grace; if we say, the gateway was adorned with beautiful carving, we imply a unity and loftiness of design such as ornamented can not express. We say of some admirable scholar or statesman, "he touched nothing that he did not adorn."

      At church, with meek and unaffected grace,

       His looks adorned the venerable place.

      Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 178.

      Antonyms:

deface,

deform,

disfigure,

mar,

spoil.

      Preposition:

      Adorn his temples with a coronet.

AFFRONT.

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