Word Meanings - DIGNIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor. Your worth will dignity our feast. B. Jonson. Syn. -- To exalt; elevate; prefer; advance; honor; illustrate; adorn; ennoble.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIGNIFY)
- Aggrandize
- Promote
- dignify
- exalt
- ennoble
- enrich
- advance
- augment
- make great
- magnify
- elevate
- signalize
- Elevate
- Raise
- Ennoble
- Exalt
- ameliorate
- aggrandize
- Signalize
- Distinguish
- glorify
- immortalize
- celerate
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIGNIFY)
Related words: (words related to DIGNIFY)
- SIGNALIZE
1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship - AMELIORATE
To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - EXALTMENT
Exaltation. Barrow. - RETREATMENT
The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - DECREASE
1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. Bacon. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - ENNOBLE
Etym: 1. To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify. "Ennobling all that he touches." Trench. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope. 2. To raise to the rank - WITHDRAWAL
The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding. - WITHDRAW
1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To - WITHDRAWER
One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts. - HINDEREST
Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer. - ENNOBLER
One who ennobles. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - INSUPPRESSIBLE
That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv. - DISGLORIFY
To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. - DISAUGMENT
To diminish. - FRAISE
A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson. - SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
The aggrandizement of one's self.