hagiographical

The word “hagiographical” has 6 syllables: hag-i-o-graph-i-cal

It's pronounced as /ˌhæɡiəˈɡræfɪkəl/


What is synonym and antonym for hagiographical?

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

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


Synonyms for hagiographical

  • 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 hagiographical

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

Example Sentences

  • The scholar delved into the extensive hagiographical records to uncover hidden details.
  • The church commissioned an artist to create a series of hagiographical paintings.
  • Despite its historical significance, the manuscript was criticized for its overly hagiographical approach.
  • The biographer faced the challenge of balancing a factual account with a hagiographical tone.
  • The academic conference featured discussions on the evolving nature of hagiographical studies.

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

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idolizing

  • adoring
  • adulating
  • adulatory
  • affectionate
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  • hagiographic
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  • hallowing
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  • indorsing
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panegyrical

  • accepting
  • acclamatory
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • advisory
  • applauding
  • appreciative
  • approbative
  • approbatory
  • approving
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  • blazing
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  • celebrating
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  • complimentary
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  • courtly
  • desirous
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  • ecstatic
  • encomiastic
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  • eulogistic
  • fair-spoken
  • favorable
  • fawning
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fierce
  • fiery
  • flaming
  • flattering
  • friendly
  • good
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • heated
  • highly favorable
  • honeyed
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  • hot-blooded
  • idolizing
  • impassioned
  • keen
  • laudative
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  • passionate
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  • polite
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  • supportive
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  • sympathetic
  • unctuous
  • warm
  • well-wishing
  • with high praise
  • with highest recommendation
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
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  • zealous

venerating

  • acquiescent
  • adherent
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • affectionate
  • amenable
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  • appreciative
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  • canonizing
  • civil
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  • 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
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  • polite
  • praising
  • prayerful
  • profound
  • recognizing
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  • religious
  • resigned
  • respectful
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  • reverencing
  • reverent
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  • 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
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  • desolate
  • despairing
  • desperate
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  • 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
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  • suspicion
  • sustaining
  • swallow whole
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  • sympathetic
  • taken in
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  • testament
  • testimonial
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  • testing
  • theorization
  • theory
  • thesis
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • trustful
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  • uncritical
  • understanding
  • undertaking
  • undoubting
  • unhappy
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  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
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  • upholding
  • usurpation
  • validating
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  • visa
  • wailing
  • warm
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  • wearing
  • weeping
  • welcoming
  • witness
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • working
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wretched
  • yes

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