Uplifting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Uplifting is an adjective meaning Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
Meaning
Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
More Meanings
- The act of something being lifted upward.
Example Sentences
Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting.
Whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex.
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[…]
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.
Word Forms
- upliftings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lift up, pick up, upthrust, upthrow, upheaval, elate.
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