What is another word for doted on?

Pronunciation: [dˈə͡ʊtɪd ˈɒn] (IPA)

"Doted on" is a phrase that typically means to show excessive affection or love towards someone or something. There are a variety of synonyms that can be used to convey a similar sentiment, including adored, cherished, treasured, idolized, worshipped, and loved dearly. Each of these synonyms captures a sense of deep affection and emotional attachment, and can be used interchangeably with "doted on" in a variety of contexts. Whether describing a relationship between two individuals, the love of a parent for a child, or the admiration one may feel for a cherished possession, these synonyms offer a rich and nuanced vocabulary for expressing feelings of love and devotion.

What are the hypernyms for Doted on?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for doted on?

The antonyms for the phrase "doted on" are disfavor, neglect, disregard, ignore, and reject. Disfavor means to disapprove of or dislike someone or something. Neglect refers to the act of failing to provide proper attention or care for someone or something. Disregard involves ignoring or paying no attention to something or someone. Ignore means to intentionally not acknowledge or pay attention to someone or something. Finally, reject means to refuse to accept or consider someone or something. These antonyms indicate the opposite of loving and cherishing someone or something, which is what "doted on" implies.

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Famous quotes with Doted on

  • I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
    Robert Smith
  • I regard the as one of the world's masterpieces. Its character-drawing, its deep and rich humanity, its perfect finish of style and its story entitle it to that. Its characters live, more real and more familiar to us than our living friends, and each speaks an accent which we can recognize. Above all, it has what we call a great story: a fabulously beautiful Chinese house-garden; a great official family, with four daughters and a son growing up and some beautiful female cousins of the same age, living a life of continual raillery and bantering laughter; a number of extremely charming and clever maid-servants, some of the plotting, intriguing type and some quick-tempered but true, and some secretly in love with the master; a few faithless servants' wives involved in little family jealousies and scandals; a father for ever absent from home on official service and two or three daughters-in-law managing the complicated routine of the whole household with order and precision [...]; the "hero," Paoyü, a boy in puberty, with a fair intelligence and a great love of female company, sent, as we are made to understand, by God to go through this phantasmagoria of love and suffering, overprotected like the sole heir of all great families in China, doted on by his grandmother, the highest authority of the household, but extremely afraid of his father, completely admired by all his female cousins and catered for by his maid-servants, who attended to his bath and sat in watch over him at night; his love for Taiyü, his orphan cousin staying in their house, who was suffering from consumption [...], easily outshining the rest in beauty and poetry, but a little too clever to be happy like the more stupid ones, opening her love to Paoyü with the purity and intensity of a young maiden's heart; another female cousin, Paots'a, also in love with Paoyü, but plumper and more practical-minded and considered a better wife by the elders; the final deception, arrangements for the wedding to Paots'a by the mothers without Paoyü's or Taiyü's knowledge, Taiyü not hearing of it until shortly before the wedding, which made her laugh hysterically and sent her to her death, and Paoyü not hearing of it till the wedding night; Paoyü's discovery of the deception by his own parents, his becoming half-idiotic and losing his mind, and finally his becoming a monk. All of this is depicted against the rise and fall of a great family, the crescendo of piling family misfortunes extending over the last third of the story, taking one's breath away like the .
    Cao Xueqin
  • By the end of the decade it had become obvious that perhaps the one constant of our variegated and strung-out peer groups was a pervasive sense of self-consciousness that sent us in grouchy packs to ugly festivals just to be and dig ourselves and each other, as if all of this meant something greater than that we were kids who liked rock 'n' roll and came out to have a good time, as if our very styles and trappings and drugs and jargon could be in themselves political statements for any longer than about fifteen stoned seconds, even a threat to the Mother Country! So we loved and loved and doted on ourselves and our reflections in each other even as the whole thing got out of hand and turned into mud and disaster areas and downs and death.
    Lester Bangs

Related words: "doted on," "doted upon," "doted over," "to dot"

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