venerated

• admirable
• admired
• adored
• aged
• angelic
• apotheosized
• august
• believing
• blessed
• blest
• canonized
• cared for
• celebrated
• chaste
• cherished
• clean
• consecrated
• considered
• darling
• dear
• dearest
• decorated
• dedicated
• deified
• delighted
• devoted
• devotional
• devout
• dignified
• distinguished
• divine
• doted on
• eminent
• endeared
• esteemed
• estimable
• exalted
• experienced
• extolled
• fair-haired
• faithful
• faultless
• favorite
• glorified
• god-fearing
• godlike
• godly
• good
• grand
• gratified
• grave
• hallowed
• highly regarded
• highly valued
• holy
• honorable
• honored
• humble
• idolized
• immaculate
• important
• imposing
• innocent
• inviolable
• just
• kept
• lauded
• lionized
• loved
• magnified
• matriarchal
• memorialized
• messianic
• minded
• moral
• noble
• patriarchal
• perfect
• pet
• philosophical
• pietistic
• pietistical
• pious
• pleased
• pleasing
• popular
• praised
• prayerful
• precious
• preserved
• privileged
• prized
• pure
• recalled
• recognized
• redoubtable
• regarded
• religious
• remembered
• reputable
• respectable
• respected
• revered
• reverenced
• reverend
• reverent
• righteous
• sacramental
• sacred
• sacrosanct
• sage
• sainted
• saintlike
• saintly
• sanctified
• satisfied
• sedate
• seraphic
• serious
• solemnized
• spiritual
• spotless
• stately
• sublime
• sweet
• treasured
• uncorrupt
• undefiled
• unprofane
• untainted
• unworldly
• upright
• venerable
• virtuous
• well-known
• well-liked
• wise
• worshiped
• worshipful
• worshipped
• worthy

• abandoned
• affronted
• bad
• base
• blasphemed
• common
• contemptible
• corrupt
• defamed
• depraved
• desecrated
• despicable
• despised
• detestable
• dirty
• discreditable
• disgraced
• disgraceful
• dishonest
• dishonorable
• dishonored
• disliked
• disparaged
• displeased
• disreputable
• disrespected
• evil
• forgotten
• hated
• ignominious
• immoral
• imprecise
• impure
• inaccurate
• incomplete
• infamous
• insulted
• irreligious
• irreverent
• libeled
• libelled
• loose
• low
• maligned
• mean
• notorious
• offended
• outraged
• piqued
• profaned
• ridiculed
• sacrilegious
• scorned
• seamy
• shadowy
• shady
• shamed
• shameful
• sinful
• slandered
• slighted
• slurred
• smeared
• sordid
• uncertain
• unholy
• unimpressive
• unknown
• unnoticed
• unperceived
• unreliable
• unrespected
• unsacred
• unsavory
• unseen
• unvirtuous
• vile
• violated
• wicked
• wretched

• verb
  1. To treat with great respect and deference.
  2. To revere or hold in awe.

• The ancient artifact was venerated as a symbol of wisdom and power.
• In some cultures, elders are venerated for their knowledge and experience.
• The statue of the national hero is venerated by citizens who visit it daily.
• Throughout history, poets and writers have been venerated for their contributions to literature.
• The monastery houses relics that are venerated by pilgrims from around the world.

fallen for

• adored
• adulated
• canonized
• captivated
• cherished
• deified
• enamored
• enchanted
• enraptured
• ensorcelled
• entranced
• fascinated
• gaga about
• have a thing about
• head over heels
• hooked
• hung up
• idealized
• idolized
• loved
• mad about
• mesmerized
• possessed
• revered
• reverenced
• spellbound
• transformed
• turned on
• under a spell
• venerated
• worshiped
• worshipped

fancied

• absent
• abstract
• absurd
• admired
• adopted
• adored
• aerial
• airy
• apocryphal
• apparitional
• appreciated
• approved
• assumed
• baseless
• bizarre
• blank
• blue-sky
• capricious
• castles in the air
• cherished
• chimeric
• chimerical
• conceited
• conceived
• conceptual
• concocted
• contemplated
• culled
• curious
• daydreamed
• dead
• deceptive
• decided upon
• defunct
• delusive
• departed
• devoured
• dreamed
• dreamed-up
• dreamlike
• dreamt
• dreamy
• dug
• elected
• empty
• endorsed
• enjoyed
• envisaged
• envisioned
• ethereal
• extinct
• extinguished
• extravagant
• fabricated
• fabulous
• fairy-tale
• fanciful
• fantasied
• fantasized
• fantastic
• fantastical
• favored
• featured
• few and far between
• fictional
• fictitious
• fictive
• figmental
• flaky
• flimsy
• floating
• foresaw
• gone
• gossamery
• got a charge out of
• got a kick out of
• groundless
• had a soft spot for
• hallucinated
• hallucinatory
• handpicked
• hypothetical
• ideal
• ideated
• idolized
• illusive
• illusory
• imaged
• imaginary
• imaginative
• imagined
• immaterial
• imponderable
• incredible
• insubstantial
• invented
• kinky
• legendary
• liked
• lost
• loved
• made up
• made-up
• manufactured
• meditated
• missing
• mused
• mythical
• mythological
• named
• negative
• nonexistent
• notional
• null
• null and void
• offbeat
• on cloud nine
• passed away
• passed on
• perished
• phantasmal
• phantasmic
• picked
• pictured
• pie in the sky
• pipe dream
• planned
• poetic
• pondered
• popular
• preferred
• prefigured
• preposterous
• prized
• projected
• quixotic
• re-created
• recreated
• reflected
• relished
• relived
• reminisced
• revered
• ruminated
• sanctioned
• savored
• savoured
• saw
• selected
• set apart
• settled upon
• shadowy
• singled out
• spectral
• stargazed
• supposed
• suppositious
• supposititious
• taken
• tenuous
• theoretical
• thought up
• took to
• treasured
• trumped-up
• ungrounded
• unreal
• unsubstantial
• vacant
• vague
• valued
• vaporous
• venerated
• visionary
• visioned
• visualized
• void
• was partial to
• well-liked
• went for
• whimsical
• wild
• without foundation
• worshiped
• worshipped

had a soft spot for

• admired
• adored
• appreciated
• cherished
• devoured
• dug
• enjoyed
• fancied
• favored
• got a charge out of
• got a kick out of
• idolized
• liked
• loved
• preferred
• prized
• relished
• revered
• savored
• savoured
• took to
• treasured
• valued
• venerated
• was partial to
• went for
• worshiped
• worshipped

hallowed

• admirable
• adored
• anointed
• baptised
• baptized
• beatified
• biblical
• blessed
• blest
• canonized
• ceremonial
• chastened
• cleansed
• committed
• consecrate
• consecrated
• considered
• dedicated
• devoted
• distinguished
• divine
• enshrined
• esteemed
• estimable
• exempt
• exorcised
• exorcized
• expurgated
• glorified
• good
• holy
• honorable
• honored
• immune
• inviolable
• inviolate
• liturgical
• lustrated
• moral
• noble
• priestly
• privileged
• protected
• pure
• purified
• reconsecrated
• redoubtable
• religious
• reputable
• respectable
• respected
• revered
• reverenced
• reverend
• righteous
• ritual
• sacral
• sacralized
• sacramental
• sacred
• sacrosanct
• sanctified
• scriptural
• secure
• shielded
• spiritual
• spiritualized
• unassailable
• unprofane
• untouchable
• venerable
• venerated
• worshiped
• worshipped
• worthy

idolized

• admired
• adored
• adulated
• appreciated
• approved
• beloved
• canonized
• cared for
• cherished
• darling
• dear
• dearest
• deified
• doted on
• endeared
• endorsed
• esteemed
• fair-haired
• fancied
• favored
• favorite
• hallowed
• hero-worshiped
• hero-worshipped
• highly regarded
• highly valued
• indorsed
• inestimable
• liked
• loved
• pet
• pleasing
• popular
• precious
• preferred
• prized
• regarded
• respected
• revered
• supported
• sweet
• treasured
• valued
• venerated
• well-liked
• worshiped
• worshipped

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