hagiographic

adjective

ha·​gio·​graph·​ic ˌha-gē-ə-ˈgra-fik 

ˌhā-, 

-jē-

variants or less commonly hagiographical

ˌha-gē-ə-ˈgra-fi-kəl 

ˌhā-, 

-jē-

1

: of, relating to, or being hagiography

especially : excessively flattering

a hagiographic biography

2

: of or relating to the Hagiographa

Synonyms of hagiographic

• sickening
• adulatory
• gushy
• oily
• oleaginous
• soapy
• unctuous
• demonstrative
• fulsome
• lavish

Examples of hagiographic in a Sentence

a hagiographic portrait of one of the pioneers of the automotive age

Recent Examples on the Web

Of course, a person making a hagiographic documentary about the production of the show for Netflix probably isn’t the world’s most neutral source. —Sharon Adarlo, Futurism, 14 Jan. 2026

In a way, then, a documentary like Angus Wall’s Being Eddie, a generally amiable and adulatory 90 minutes streaming on Netflix, fails; with its softly hagiographic approach, the director never pushes Eddie Murphy to any place that feels untapped or confrontational, and therefore newsworthy. —Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025

Years of hagiographic media coverage and his immense social-media reach birthed legions of fanboys and nurtured a cult of personality. —Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025

The hagiographic mode gave way to a more prosecutorial one. —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 19 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1652, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for hagiographic

• autographic
• biographic
• calligraphic
• cartographic
• cryptographic
• demographic
• epigraphic
• ethnographic
• geographic
• holographic
• hydrographic
• lithographic