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uplifting en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From uplift + -ing.

Meanings

1. Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
   • It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159:
   • Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting.

Forms

Deriveds

unuplifting · upliftingness · upliftingly

Translations (15)

pl pocieszający (improving the mood) · fi innostava (improving the mood) · es animado (improving the mood) · nb oppløftende (improving the mood) · bg повдигащ настроението (improving the mood) · es inspirador (improving the mood) · fr qui met de bonne humeur (improving the mood) · es elevador (improving the mood) · es animante (improving the mood) · fr qui remonte le moral (improving the mood) · cs povznášející (improving the mood) · es alegre (improving the mood) · fi innoittava (improving the mood) · es animador (improving the mood) · bg повдигащ духа (improving the mood)

uplifting en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From uplift + -ing.

Meanings

1. The act of something being lifted upward.
   • The borders of large subsiding areas sooner or later experiencing deep fissurings and extensive upliftings through the tension or horizontal force of the subsiding crust[…] 1847, The American Journal of Science and Arts, →ISSN, page 91:
   • Whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex. 1851, Herman Melville, “Chapter 35, The Mast-Head”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (fiction), page 86:

Forms

Translations (2)

eo levo (act of lifting something up) · bg вдигане (act of lifting something up)