elevating

The word “elevating” has 4 syllables: el-e-va-ting

It's pronounced as /ˈɛləveɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for elevating?

In the thesaurus, “elevating” has 155 synonyms and 77 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for elevating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for elevating

  • acclaiming
  • adorning
  • advancing
  • affecting
  • aggrandizing
  • animating
  • animative
  • applauding
  • artistic
  • ascending
  • beautifying
  • beneficial
  • boosting
  • bracing
  • breathtaking
  • broadening
  • canonizing
  • celebrating
  • cheering
  • citing
  • civilizing
  • clarifying
  • cleaning
  • comforting
  • commending
  • commissioning
  • commoving
  • complimenting
  • congratulating
  • constructive
  • contenting
  • corrective
  • craning
  • cultivating
  • decorating
  • deifying
  • delighting
  • developmental
  • dignifying
  • disciplining
  • distillation
  • edifying
  • educative
  • elating
  • electric
  • encouraging
  • enlivening
  • ennobling
  • enrapturing
  • enriching
  • enshrining
  • enskying
  • enthroning
  • eulogizing
  • exalting
  • exciting
  • exhilarant
  • exhilarating
  • exhilarative
  • exhilaratory
  • expanding
  • extolling
  • eye-popping
  • focusing
  • forwarding
  • fulfilling
  • furthering
  • gladdening
  • glorifying
  • gratifying
  • hailing
  • heartening
  • heartwarming
  • heaving
  • hefting
  • heightening
  • helpful
  • hiking
  • hoisting
  • honing
  • honoring
  • humane
  • humanizing
  • idealizing
  • improving
  • influential
  • inspirational
  • inspiring
  • inspiriting
  • instructive
  • intensifying
  • intoxicating
  • invigorating
  • kicking upstairs
  • kind
  • kindly
  • knighting
  • lauding
  • learned
  • liberal
  • liberalizing
  • lifting
  • loving
  • magnifying
  • mounting
  • moving
  • nurturing
  • ornamenting
  • perfecting
  • picking up
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • poignant
  • polishing
  • praising
  • promoting
  • purifying
  • quickening
  • raising
  • rearing
  • refined
  • refining
  • regenerative
  • rejoicing
  • rewarding
  • rising
  • romanticizing
  • rousing
  • saluting
  • sanitizing
  • satisfying
  • sharpening
  • socializing
  • stimulating
  • stimulative
  • stirring
  • sugarcoating
  • sympathetic
  • taking up
  • tender
  • thrilling
  • tonic
  • touching
  • transporting
  • upending
  • upgrading
  • upholding
  • uplifting
  • upping
  • upraising
  • vitalizing
  • warm
  • warming
  • welcoming
  • widening

Antonyms for elevating

  • abasing
  • agitating
  • bearing
  • belittling
  • boring
  • censuring
  • cheerless
  • cold
  • condemning
  • damning
  • decrying
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • demoting
  • denouncing
  • deposing
  • depreciating
  • depressing
  • descending
  • dethroning
  • detracting
  • dipping
  • disappointing
  • discomforting
  • disconcerting
  • discouraging
  • disgracing
  • disgruntling
  • disheartening
  • dishonoring
  • dismaying
  • dismissing
  • disparaging
  • dispiriting
  • displeasing
  • dissatisfying
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • downgrading
  • dropping
  • expelling
  • falling
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • impeaching
  • lowering
  • minimizing
  • mortifying
  • oppressing
  • ousting
  • overthrowing
  • pitching
  • plunging
  • pressing
  • pushing
  • reducing
  • removing
  • reprobating
  • saddening
  • shaming
  • sinking
  • slipping
  • submerging
  • taking down
  • unfeeling
  • unfriendly
  • unkind
  • unloving
  • unmaking
  • unpleasant
  • unseating
  • unstimulating
  • upsetting
  • worrying

Meanings of elevating

  • verb
    1. To raise (something) to a higher position.
    2. To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
    3. To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
    4. To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
    5. To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
    6. To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
    7. To lift the spirits of (someone).
    8. To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
    9. (Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

Example Sentences

  • The coach's advice is always elevating the team's morale before a big game.
  • The new project is elevating the company’s profile in the industry.
  • She was recognized for her elevating influence in the community.
  • The team’s hard work is elevating them to the top of the league.
  • The speaker was elevating the discussion by introducing fresh ideas.

On this page you'll find 232 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to elevating, such as: abasing, acclaiming, adorning, advancing, affecting, aggrandizing, agitating.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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cultivating

  • abetting
  • absorbing
  • achieving
  • acquiring
  • adopting
  • advancing
  • advertising
  • advocating
  • aiding
  • assisting
  • attaining
  • backing
  • boosting
  • breeding
  • championing
  • civilizing
  • clarifying
  • cleaning
  • cropping
  • culturing
  • developing
  • distillation
  • dressing
  • elevating
  • embracing
  • encouraging
  • endorsing
  • endowing
  • farming
  • financing
  • focusing
  • forming
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • funding
  • furthering
  • gaining
  • gathering
  • germinating
  • getting
  • gleaning
  • growing
  • harrowing
  • harvesting
  • hoeing
  • honing
  • improving
  • incubating
  • indorsing
  • nourishing
  • nursing
  • nurturing
  • obtaining
  • patronizing
  • perfecting
  • planting
  • plugging
  • polishing
  • producing
  • promoting
  • propagating
  • publicizing
  • purifying
  • quickening
  • raising
  • reaching
  • reaping
  • rearing
  • ripening
  • rooting
  • sharecropping
  • sharpening
  • sowing
  • sprouting
  • staking
  • subsidizing
  • supporting
  • taking in
  • taking on
  • tending
  • tilling
  • touting
  • underwriting
  • upholding

edifying

  • affecting
  • animating
  • availing
  • beneficial
  • bettering
  • chatty
  • cheering
  • comforting
  • communicatory
  • comprehensive
  • constructive
  • copious
  • cultural
  • detailed
  • educating
  • educational
  • educative
  • elevating
  • elucidative
  • encouraging
  • enlightening
  • enlivening
  • ennobling
  • enriching
  • ensouling
  • exalting
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • explanatory
  • fulfilling
  • full
  • gladdening
  • glorifying
  • gossipy
  • gratifying
  • heartening
  • heartwarming
  • helpful
  • illuminating
  • illuminative
  • illuming
  • illumining
  • improving
  • informational
  • informative
  • informatory
  • inspiring
  • inspiriting
  • instructional
  • instructive
  • invigorating
  • kind
  • kindly
  • lifting
  • loving
  • moving
  • newsy
  • nurturing
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • poignant
  • practical
  • profitable
  • refining
  • regenerating
  • renewing
  • rewarding
  • rousing
  • satisfying
  • serviceable
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • sympathetic
  • tender
  • thrilling
  • touching
  • transfiguring
  • transforming
  • uplifting
  • usable
  • useable
  • useful
  • warm
  • welcoming
  • worthwhile

educating

  • bettering
  • brainwash
  • brief
  • briefing
  • catechizing
  • civilize
  • coach
  • coaching
  • cultivate
  • develop
  • directing
  • discipline
  • drill
  • drilling
  • drum into
  • edify
  • edifying
  • elevating
  • enlighten
  • enlightening
  • ennobling
  • enriching
  • ensouling
  • exalting
  • exercise
  • explain
  • familiarizing
  • fitting
  • foster
  • glorifying
  • grounding
  • guiding
  • habilitating
  • homeschooling
  • illuminating
  • illuming
  • illumining
  • implanting
  • improve
  • improving
  • inculcating
  • indoctrinate
  • indoctrinating
  • inform
  • informing
  • initiating
  • inspiring
  • instilling
  • instruct
  • instructing
  • introducing
  • leading
  • lecturing
  • lessoning
  • let in on
  • lifting
  • mature
  • mentoring
  • moralizing
  • nurture
  • nurturing
  • preaching
  • preparing
  • priming
  • put hip
  • put through the grind
  • qualifying
  • rear
  • rearing
  • reeducating
  • regenerating
  • renewing
  • reschooling
  • reteaching
  • retraining
  • school
  • schooling
  • show the ropes
  • showing
  • teaching
  • train
  • training
  • transfiguring
  • transforming
  • tutor
  • tutoring
  • uplifting
  • versing

elating

  • advantageous
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • alluring
  • amiable
  • amusing
  • arousing
  • attractive
  • beneficial
  • blessed
  • blest
  • blissful
  • bright
  • calming
  • charming
  • cheerful
  • cheering
  • cheery
  • comfortable
  • comforting
  • commoving
  • conducive
  • congenial
  • contenting
  • convenient
  • darling
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • delightful
  • delighting
  • delightsome
  • desirable
  • diverting
  • dreamy
  • dulcet
  • ecstatic
  • elevating
  • enchanting
  • encouraging
  • enjoyable
  • enlivening
  • enrapturing
  • entertaining
  • enviable
  • euphoric
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • expeditious
  • fair
  • fascinating
  • favorable
  • felicific
  • felicitous
  • fine
  • fit
  • flattering
  • fortifying
  • fortunate
  • genial
  • glad
  • gladdening
  • golden
  • good
  • good-natured
  • goodly
  • gracious
  • grateful
  • gratifying
  • halcyon
  • happy
  • heartening
  • heavenly
  • helpful
  • hospitable
  • inspiring
  • inspiriting
  • intoxicating
  • inviting
  • jolly
  • joyous
  • kindly
  • likely
  • lucky
  • luscious
  • nice
  • nirvanic
  • opportune
  • palatable
  • personable
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • pretty
  • probable
  • promiseful
  • propitious
  • providential
  • rapturous
  • reasonable
  • reassuring
  • recreative
  • rejoicing
  • relishable
  • roseate
  • rosy
  • rousing
  • satisfying
  • savory
  • savoury
  • soothing
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • suitable
  • sunny
  • sweet
  • tasty
  • tempting
  • timely
  • transporting
  • uplifting
  • warming
  • welcome
  • well-timed

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