Synonyms of dignifying

dignifying

verb

present participle of dignify

as in elevating

to assign a high status or value to

our graduation ceremony was dignified by a visit from the mayor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• elevating
• promoting
• ennobling
• lifting
• exalting
• aggrandizing
• deifying
• enthroning
• enshrining
• glorifying
• canonizing
• praising
• magnifying
• honoring
• upgrading
• uplifting
• raising
• boosting
• enskying
• heightening
• idealizing
• intensifying
• romanticizing
• acclaiming
• lauding
• sanitizing
• extolling
• sugarcoating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• degrading
• humiliating
• humbling
• minimizing
• demeaning
• disparaging
• belittling
• detracting
• abasing
• depreciating
• decrying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dignifying

This deeply affecting memoir, which is strung like a wire between the alienation of the assembly line and the dignifying promise of literature, documents his experience. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 1 June 2026