uplifting

English

Etymology

From uplift +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: up‧lif‧ting

Adjective

uplifting (comparative more uplifting, superlative most uplifting)

1. Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

   Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting.

Translations

improving the mood

• Czech: povznášející
• Finnish: innostava (fi), innoittava
• French: qui met de bonne humeur, qui remonte le moral
• Polish: pocieszający

Noun

uplifting (plural upliftings)

1. The act of something being lifted upward.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, “Chapter 35, The Mast-Head”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (fiction), page 86:

     Whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex.

   • 1847, The American Journal of Science and Arts, →ISSN, page 91:

     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 […]