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admiring

Adjective
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Showing approval or praise. Here it means looking at something with interest or admiration.

Detailed Definition
Admiring describes a gaze or attitude of approval, respect, or delight. In the poem, the bog is humorously personified as if it were an audience that listens with admiration, which makes the image absurd and comic.
Example
Example in poetry:
“To an admiring bog!” gives the bog the human response of admiration; “An admiring audience held its breath” uses the ordinary sense of appreciative attention; “The child stood admiring before the mural” shows the participle as an active gaze; In satire, “an admiring bog” may mock grand performance by giving praise to an absurd spectator
Additional Notes
The word itself is common, but in this line it is used in an unusual personifying way that may make readers stop and notice the phrase.; Found in the poem, I'm Nobody! by Emily Dickinson
Also Known As
admiringly reverently appreciatively adoring
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