adoring• The singer, for instance, believed himself to be a great tenorperforming before an adoringaudience at La Scala.• Adoring fans crowded around the stage.• Gesner, sniffing the advance of his adoring fans, suddenly became smug and rather patronizing.• He was a lovinghusband and, briefly, an adoring father.• Caroline was always surrounded by adoring males, showered with gifts and benefits.• Leggy Linda Lusardi has just been told that her new job involves moving in with seven adoring men.• She doesn't like crowds of adoringrelatives and friends, and becomes distressed when too much is going on at once.• Once, his exploits were followed every week by 200,000 adoring young fans.