dignifying

1. 1.

   investing with dignity or honor

   “the dignifying effect of his presence”

   “the ennobling influence of cultural surroundings”

   Synonymsennobling

   Similarnoble

Questions about dignifying

What does dignifying mean?

dignifying means "investing with dignity or honor".

How many syllables are in dignifying?

dignifying has 3 syllables: dig-ni-fying. The stress falls on "dig".

What is another word for dignifying?

Close synonyms include ennobling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dignifying a common word?

dignifying is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.