hero worshipper

Thân thiện

A young hero worshipper looks up at a statue of a famous explorer.

Definition

Noun: A person who has an intense, often uncritical, admiration for heroes or famous people. This admiration typically involves idealizing their qualities, achievements, or status.

Usage

The term describes a person's characteristic attitude or behavior. It is used to identify someone who engages in the act of hero worship. * He was a lifelong hero worshipper, filling his room with posters of famous astronauts. * The biography was written not by a detached historian but by a devoted hero worshipper. * As a young hero worshipper, she would follow every detail of her favorite scientist's career.

Advanced Usage

• The term can sometimes carry a mild negative connotation, implying that the admiration is excessive, naive, or excludes a realistic view of the hero's flaws.
  • The critic dismissed the author's perspective, calling him a mere hero worshipper incapable of objective analysis.

Variants and Related Words

• Hero Worship (n): The act or practice of worshipping heroes.
  • The culture of hero worship in sports is very prevalent.
• Hero-Worship (v): To admire or revere someone as a hero.
  • A generation of young musicians hero-worshipped the jazz legend.

Synonyms

• Admirer
• Devotee
• Idolizer

Related Idioms/Phrases

• To put someone on a pedestal: To admire someone so much that you treat them as perfect. This idiom describes the action characteristic of a hero worshipper.
  • She realized she had been putting her mentor on a pedestal and ignoring his advice was a mistake.

Học thuật

Noun

1. someone who worships heroes

Từ đồng nghĩa

• hero worshiper