Word Meanings - ELEVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Elevated; raised aloft. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ELEVATE)

• Advance Propel
• elevate
• promote
• further
• lend
• propagate
• progress
• increase
• prosper
• rise
• Aggrandize
• Promote
• dignify
• exalt
• ennoble
• enrich
• advance
• augment
• make great
• magnify
• signalize
• Buoy
• Float
• support
• sustain
• elate
• assure
• animate
• cheer
• inspire
• Dignify
• invest
• adorn
• honor
• Ennoble
• Exalt
• ameliorate
• aggrandize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ELEVATE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert

Related words: (words related to ELEVATE)

• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• PROPELLER
  1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• PROGRESS
  to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• FLOATATION
  See FLOTATION
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
• IMPROSPEROUS
  Not prosperous. Dryden. -- Im*pros"per*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*pros"per*ous*ness, n.