Past tense of adore
regular verb
The past tense of adore is adored. The past participle is also adored.
Forms of adore
| Base form (V1) | adore /əˈdɔː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | adored /əˈdɔɹd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | adored /əˈdɔɹd/ |
| Present participle | adoring |
| Third person singular | adores |
Adored in a sentence
- They adored diagnosis, many suffered from spanophilia and most had little interest in time-consuming treatments.2016, Hsin Fen Chien, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Movement Disorders Rehabilitation, →ISBN. From the entry spanophilia
- Miss Catley adored the English language, poetry and plays; I think she was an ‘actress manquée’.2013, June Brown, chapter 14, in Before the Year Dot, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry manquée
- A genre once adored by viewers lies dead, but not forgotten, in television's Boot Hill.2008 May 23, Gail Pennington, “'60s upheaval shot down Westerns”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, retrieved 08 Jun 2008. From the entry Boot Hill
- My in-laws had a hammock that my older son adored.2024, Sarah Asermily, “A Blue Bird Day”, in Amy Newmark, editor, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven, Cos…. From the entry grandpie
- He adored them, he collected them and he even had a shop in London’s Covent Garden selling them.2018 June 8 [2018 March 31], “Actor Peter Baldwin's toy theatres up for auction”, in SussexWorld, Iconic Media Group. From the entry juvenalia
Meaning of adore
- verb To worship.
- verb To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
- verb To be very fond of.
Questions about the past tense of adore
- What is the past tense of adore?
- The past tense of adore is adored.
- What is the past participle of adore?
- The past participle of adore is adored.
- Is adore a regular or irregular verb?
- Adore is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adore (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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