"uplifting" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-uplifting.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more uplifting [comparative], most uplifting [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} uplifting (comparative more uplifting, superlative most uplifting)
  1. Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness. Categories (topical): Happiness Translations (improving the mood): povznášející (Czech), innostava (Finnish), innoittava (Finnish), qui met de bonne humeur (French), qui remonte le moral (French), pocieszający (Polish)
    Sense id: en-uplifting-en-adj-WbHpFk5u Disambiguation of Happiness: 97 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 88 12

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-uplifting.wav [Southern-England] Forms: upliftings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} uplifting (plural upliftings)
  1. The act of something being lifted upward.
    Sense id: en-uplifting-en-noun-C5gXhl5l

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for uplifting meaning in English (3.6kB)

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