Meaning and example
regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
Fear God as your father
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.150 places venerate in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 87.9% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
adulationUncommon
- Known by
- 87.9%
servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise
dissonanceUncommon
- Known by
- 87.7%
a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
prosaicUncommon
- Known by
- 87.6%
not fanciful or imaginative
nefariousUncommon
- Known by
- 88.1%
extremely wicked
sanguineUncommon
- Known by
- 88.1%
a blood-red color
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.