hagiographic

The word “hagiographic” has 5 syllables: hag-i-o-graph-ic

It's pronounced as /ˌhæɡiəˈɡræfɪk/


What is synonym and antonym for hagiographic?

In the thesaurus, “hagiographic” has 38 synonyms and 12 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for hagiographic

  • abundant
  • adulatory
  • artificial
  • backhanded
  • cloying
  • copious
  • demonstrative
  • disarming
  • drooling
  • effusive
  • endearing
  • extravagant
  • feigned
  • fulsome
  • gushing
  • gushy
  • hypocritical
  • ingratiating
  • insincere
  • lavish
  • left-handed
  • mealymouthed
  • mushy
  • oily
  • oleaginous
  • profuse
  • sanctimonious
  • sickening
  • slavering
  • slobbering
  • soapy
  • two-faced
  • unctuous
  • uninhibited
  • unreserved
  • unrestrained
  • winning
  • winsome

Antonyms for hagiographic

  • artless
  • earnest
  • genuine
  • heartfelt
  • honest
  • ingenuous
  • sincere
  • true
  • unaffected
  • unfeigned
  • unpretending
  • unpretentious

Example Sentences

  • The biography, although informative, had a distinctly hagiographic tone.
  • The documentary presented a more critical view, avoiding a purely hagiographic portrayal.
  • Some scholars argue that the traditional narrative of the saint's life is too hagiographic.
  • The medieval manuscript was an exquisite example of hagiographic literature.
  • Despite its reputation as a reliable source, the text was criticized for its overtly hagiographic nature.

On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to hagiographic, such as: abundant, adulatory, artificial, artless, backhanded, cloying, copious.

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Related Words

idolizing

  • adoring
  • adulating
  • adulatory
  • affectionate
  • appreciating
  • appreciative
  • approving
  • canonizing
  • cherishing
  • deferential
  • deifying
  • endorsing
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  • fancying
  • favoring
  • fond
  • glorifying
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • hallowing
  • hero-worshiping
  • hero-worshipping
  • indorsing
  • liking
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  • reverent
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  • revering
  • supporting
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  • valuing
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  • worshipful
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panegyrical

  • accepting
  • acclamatory
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • advisory
  • applauding
  • appreciative
  • approbative
  • approbatory
  • approving
  • ardent
  • avid
  • blazing
  • burning
  • celebrating
  • commendatory
  • complimentary
  • congratulatory
  • courtly
  • desirous
  • eager
  • ecstatic
  • encomiastic
  • encomiastical
  • eulogistic
  • fair-spoken
  • favorable
  • fawning
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fierce
  • fiery
  • flaming
  • flattering
  • friendly
  • good
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • heated
  • highly favorable
  • honeyed
  • honoring
  • hot-blooded
  • idolizing
  • impassioned
  • keen
  • laudative
  • laudatory
  • passionate
  • plauditory
  • polite
  • positive
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  • rave
  • recommendatory
  • respectful
  • rhapsodic
  • supportive
  • sycophantic
  • sympathetic
  • unctuous
  • warm
  • well-wishing
  • with high praise
  • with highest recommendation
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • zealous

venerating

  • acquiescent
  • adherent
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • affectionate
  • amenable
  • apotheosizing
  • appreciative
  • approving
  • ardent
  • attentive
  • biddable
  • canonizing
  • civil
  • complaisant
  • compliant
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  • controllable
  • courtly
  • deep
  • deferential
  • deifying
  • delighting
  • devoted
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  • docile
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  • duteous
  • dutiful
  • earnest
  • exalting
  • extolling
  • faithful
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fond
  • genuine
  • glorifying
  • godly
  • goody two-shoes
  • goody-goody
  • governable
  • gracious
  • gratifying
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • heartfelt
  • holy
  • honoring
  • humble
  • idolizing
  • intense
  • lauding
  • law-abiding
  • lionizing
  • loving
  • loyal
  • magnifying
  • obedient
  • obeisant
  • obliging
  • observant
  • on a string
  • orthodox
  • passionate
  • pietistic
  • pious
  • pleasing
  • pliant
  • polite
  • praising
  • prayerful
  • profound
  • recognizing
  • regardful
  • regarding
  • religious
  • resigned
  • respectful
  • respecting
  • reverencing
  • reverent
  • reverential
  • revering
  • satisfying
  • self-effacing
  • serious
  • sheeplike
  • sincere
  • solicitous
  • submissive
  • subservient
  • tame
  • tractable
  • under control
  • upholding
  • well-mannered
  • well-trained
  • willing
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wrapped around finger
  • yielding
  • zealous

accepting

  • abiding
  • abject
  • absorbing
  • acceding
  • acceptance
  • acceptive
  • acclaiming
  • accord
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • admiring
  • admission
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adoption
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • advisory
  • advocating
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • allowing
  • altering
  • amenable
  • applauding
  • applying
  • appreciative
  • approbatory
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • approving
  • arrogation
  • artless
  • assent
  • assenting
  • assuming
  • assurance
  • attending
  • attentive
  • attestation
  • authenticating
  • authentication
  • authorization
  • authorizing
  • avowal
  • backing
  • bearing
  • becoming
  • belief
  • believing
  • biding
  • bleak
  • blue
  • born yesterday
  • bringing in
  • brokenhearted
  • brooking
  • buying
  • capitulating
  • certain
  • certainty
  • championing
  • cheerless
  • childlike
  • collecting
  • comfortless
  • commendatory
  • commending
  • compliance
  • complimentary
  • concentrating
  • concluding
  • confidence
  • confident
  • confiding
  • confirming
  • conjecture
  • consent
  • consenting
  • convinced
  • cooperation
  • corroborating
  • corroboration
  • countenancing
  • credit
  • crediting
  • credulous
  • crestfallen
  • cynical
  • dark
  • deducing
  • dejected
  • demonstration
  • dependence
  • dependent
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • disappointed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • down
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drawing
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dupable
  • earning
  • easy mark
  • embracing
  • employing
  • encomiastic
  • endorsement
  • endorsing
  • enduring
  • enjoying
  • espousing
  • eulogistic
  • evidence
  • expectation
  • faith
  • falling for
  • fancy
  • favorable
  • favoring
  • flattering
  • forlorn
  • friendly
  • funereal
  • gaining
  • gathering
  • getting
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • go ahead
  • going
  • going for
  • good
  • grab
  • green
  • green light
  • grieving
  • growing
  • guess
  • guileless
  • gullable
  • gullible
  • hacking
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • handling
  • hangdog
  • having
  • having faith
  • hearkening
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heeding
  • holding with
  • hopeful
  • hopeless
  • hunch
  • hypothesis
  • idolizing
  • inconsolable
  • indorsing
  • inference
  • inferring
  • inheriting
  • innocent
  • interested
  • joyless
  • kind
  • laudative
  • laudatory
  • lauding
  • lenient
  • liking
  • living with
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • magnanimous
  • making
  • meeting
  • melancholy
  • merciful
  • miserable
  • mournful
  • naive
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • okay
  • okaying
  • open
  • open-minded
  • overconfident
  • overtrusting
  • panegyrical
  • passage
  • passing
  • paying attention
  • permission
  • permitting
  • pessimistic
  • pocketing
  • posit
  • positive
  • postulate
  • postulation
  • practicing
  • praiseful
  • praising
  • premise
  • presuming
  • presumption
  • presupposition
  • proof
  • proving
  • ratifying
  • reaccepting
  • reassuming
  • receipt
  • receiving
  • reception
  • recognition
  • recommendatory
  • recommending
  • reliance
  • reliant
  • resigned
  • respectful
  • respecting
  • sad
  • saddened
  • saluting
  • sanction
  • sanctioning
  • secure
  • securing
  • seizure
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • shot
  • shot in the dark
  • shouldering
  • simple
  • sneaking suspicion
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stab
  • stamp of approval
  • standing
  • standing by
  • standing for
  • sticking out
  • stock
  • stomaching
  • store
  • submitting to
  • substantiation
  • succumbing
  • suffering
  • support
  • supporting
  • supportive
  • supposal
  • supposing
  • supposition
  • sure
  • surmise
  • suspicion
  • sustaining
  • swallow whole
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • sympathetic
  • taken in
  • takeover
  • taking
  • taking kindly to
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • taking up
  • testament
  • testimonial
  • testimony
  • testing
  • theorization
  • theory
  • thesis
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • uncritical
  • understanding
  • undertaking
  • undoubting
  • unhappy
  • unquestioning
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwary
  • upholding
  • usurpation
  • validating
  • verification
  • verifying
  • visa
  • wailing
  • warm
  • warrant
  • warranting
  • wearing
  • weeping
  • welcoming
  • witness
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • working
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wretched
  • yes

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