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uplifting

Syllables: up·lif·ting

uplifting adjective: improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

Adjective

uplifting (comparative more uplifting, superlative most uplifting)

  1. Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
    • Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting.
    • 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

Noun

uplifting (plural upliftings)

  1. The act of something being lifted upward.
    • 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
    • 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

uplifting meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

uplifting in Urdu

اپلیفٹنگ

uplifting in Malayalam

stirring, inspiring, inspirational
മാനസികോന്നമനം ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, പ്രചോദനം നൽകുന്ന, ഉദ്ദീപിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, ഉണർത്തുന്ന, പ്രചോദനം കൊള്ളിക്കുന്ന, പ്രചോദനകരമായ

uplifting in Kannada

ಉದ್ಧರಿಸುವ, ಮೇಲೆತ್ತುವ, ಸುಧಾರಿಸುವ

Forms of uplifting

Adjective
comparativemore uplifting
superlativemost uplifting
Noun
pluralupliftings

Origin of uplifting

From uplift + -ing.

Words formed from uplifting

Questions about uplifting

What does uplifting mean?
Uplifting means improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
What is uplifting in Urdu?
Uplifting in Urdu is اپلیفٹنگ. See Uplifting meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is uplifting?
Uplifting can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near uplifting in the dictionary

  1. upliftedness
  2. uplifter
  3. uplifters
  4. upliftest
  5. uplifteth
  6. uplifting
  7. upliftingly
  8. upliftingness
  9. upliftings
  10. upliftment
  11. upliftments

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: uplifting (page history and authors); uplifting (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uplifting (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); uplifting (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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