mirac-, mira-, mir- +

1. Deserving of the highest esteem or respect: "Dependableness was his most admirable quality."
2. Inspiring approval and admiration: "The TV documentary did a more admirable job of showing what actually happened then the government reports did."

1. In a manner to excite wonder, mingled with approbation (favorable opinion), esteem (high regard), or veneration: "She took care of the situation admirably."
2. A reference to someone deserving the highest esteem and respect: "The father admirably supported his family by working on two jobs."

1. A feeling of pleasure, wonder, and approval about someone or something: "He earned the admiration of his co-workers."
2. An object of wonder and esteem; a marvel: "They all have a great admiration for her courage."
3. The act of looking on or contemplating with pleasure: "The woman looked at her supervisor in admiration for his efforts to keep everyone on the job and not suspending anyone even in these difficult economic times."
4. Etymology: from Middle French admiration or directly from Latin admirationem, admiratio, "a wondering at"; the noun form of admirari, "to admire"; from ad-, "at" + mirari, "to wonder" which came from mirus, "wonderful".

Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder: "He showed his admirative efforts to help the couple through their crisis."

1. To regard with pleasure, wonder, and approval: "The little girl is admired for her courage."
2. To have a high opinion of; to esteem or to respect: "We are still admiring the way he handled the situation."

To admire a person means literally to wonder at him or her.

3. Respecting and approving of a person or his or her behavior.
4. Finding someone or something attractive and pleasant to look at.

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized: "He was an admired author for his skill in writing." "His mother was a more admired woman because of the way she took care of her children during the flooding of their home."

1. A person who admires someone.
2. Those who esteem, respect, or approve of another person or people.

1. With admiration: "He looked at his wife admiringly after her speech was over."
2. In an admiring manner: "They glanced admiringly at the beautiful scenery as the train went through the valley."

1. Someone who or something that evokes surprise, admiration, or wonder: "They were very pleased by the marvels of the food that was available during their trip to Argentina."
2. A person who does wonderful or astonishing things; especially, someone who is very skilled in doing something: "We couldn't help but get excited about the marvel of the child's musical presentation."

1. Extraordinarily wonderful.
2. Extremely good, very good, or very pleasing.

1. Extremely well done: "He marvelously presented his songs for the audience."
2. Wonderfully; strangely; in a manner to excite wonder or surprise: "For someone who is so young, her musical skills are marvelously disciplined."

1. Causing wonder; astonishing.
2. Miraculous, supernatural.
3. Of the highest kind or quality.
4. Notably superior.

1. An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God.
2. An effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
3. Any amazing or wonderful occurrence.
4. From Old French miracle, from Latin miraculum, "object of wonder" (in Church Latin, "marvelous event caused by God"), from mirari, "to wonder at", from mirus, "wonderful".

1. Performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency; preternatural: "It was a miraculous cure."
2. Of the nature of a miracle; marvelous.
3. Having or seeming to have the power to work miracles: "She offered miraculous drugs for his illness."
4. So astounding as to suggest a miracle; phenomenal.

In a miraculous manner or very wonderful and amazing: "Miraculously no one was injured in the accident."