Difference between love and adore

The Oxford Dictionary (7th edn) says adore is to love somebody very much.

That said, I think love is a much stronger word than adore as love encompasses a whole lot of other properties and feelings. A person may demonstrate the greatest act of love (not adoration) by sacrificing his/her life for another person.

That's my opinion; there may be many rebuttals.

Chris

I think that "love" is more appropriate with people, with "adore" being slightly stronger.

I also link "adore" with a more religious context, as in the 'Adoration of the Magi', or with an iconoclastic response as 'I adore Marilyn Monroe'. It's also used in a "hoity-toity" sense, as "I just adore those pearls, dahling".

The two might be of equal strength, as in I adore/love Fre

In my opinion, to adore (someone) is a little silly nowadays, so I'd say that love is stronger, or at least deeper. Adoration seems a bit superficial to me, consisting of a sort of mindless fawning over the beloved, who is regarded as the most intelligent and most beautiful and flawless creature in the world from whom flows all that is to be valued in life. My guess is that the term is u

my bf said I ador you then you the loveable I want you I like you I will make you warm but he never said I love you. He insisted to have dates but on refusal he said we have no relation. what did he mean? sana thakkar

To me, love is much deeper than adoration. When you adore someone, you may not be any love involved, but you feel consumed in his or her presence. Your spirit is lifted by his every move. Just like this song: My Eyes Adore You

My eyes adored ya
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored ya
Like a million miles away from me you couldn't see how I adored ya

I fell that adore is stronger than love because now days people throw out u love you like hellos

You have a point!

Adore: is to regard with the utmost esteem, love, andrespect; honor. Adore encompasses love as well as other emotions which can be seen almost as better. You can love someone but you may not necessarily respect them. Some may argue if you truly llove them you would respect them but it's not always the truth. I feel they can be interchangeable but if I had to pick one being stronger I'd chose adore

I totally agree

I think many of the respondents above are interpreting the word adore in the formal sense, as in the word adulation. I feel that modern usage is more informal and simply means to be very fond of. I may find something or someone to be adorable or behave in an adorable manner, and as such may say I adore them or their way of being, but I may say that to a very good friend or even somebody I might ev