having or showing excessive admiration or devotion
Derived forms
idolatrously (iˈdolatrously)
adverb
idolatrousness (iˈdolatrousness)
noun
idolatrous in American English
(aiˈdɑlətrəs)
adjective
1.
worshiping idols
2.
blindly adoring
3.
of or pertaining to idolatry
Derived forms
idolatrously
adverb
idolatrousness
noun
Word origin
[1540–50; idolatr(y) + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1540–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cabinet, horizon, mandate, platform, vacuum-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous)
Examples of 'idolatrous' in a sentence
idolatrous
He has called capitalism 'an economy of exclusion by an idolatrous system of money'.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In this literalization, the idolatrous deception of the first moment becomes readable.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
Many were torn up as idolatrous or for their metal content - their 'brass' is roughly 75 per cent copper.