dignifying

Conveying or conducive to a sense of dignity.

Adjective

  1. Conveying or conducive to a sense of dignity.
    • Let it be remembered that whilst memory travelled over more than four thousand years of the history of man, it could not light upon an age more dignifying to human nature than the present. - 1838, T. F. Thomas, Familiar...
    • Besides the irresistible contagion of his merriment, the flashes of wit, the tenderness of his sentiment, the wild laughter of his satiric scorn of cant, and priestcraft, and self-righteousness, the ardor of his...
    • Asking for such an honorable favor, for such a noble need, is very dignifying. - 2021, Daniel Darling, Ministers of Reconciliation:

Forms

more dignifying most dignifying

Derived

undignifying

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of dignify