dignified Definition
dig·ni·fied (dig′nə fīd′)
adjective
having or showing dignity or stateliness
dignified Related Forms
dignified Synonyms
dignified
modif.
dignified Usage Examples
Preposition: by
- title: This was indeed a profound insight and became dignified by the title the Changing Locus of Reformism.
- name: This is the kind of thing which is dignified by the name of New Knowledge.
- term: Your contribution therefore cannot even by dignified by the term ' polemic ' .
Preposition: with
- title: Conscription is dignified with the title of national service.
- name: The great pub standby for main courses is the casserole, or stew, now dignified with posh names like daube or bourguignonne.
Modifies a noun
- silence: The dignified silence of the tobacco companies was broken.
- manner: He reacts in a dignified manner, accepting what she tells him.
- burial: I was relieved to be given the chance to give this child a dignified burial of what was left.
- funeral: The State will ensure the deceased receives a basic dignified funeral.
- ceremony: Friends and families of the deceased attended a dignified ceremony.
- exit: Still, at least it made a dignified exit, with no traces of malice placed in any characters ' mouths.
Modifying Another Word
- essentially: Saturn in Libra is essentially dignified no matter where he is in the chart.
- rather: However, what he plays is no forced compromise: he has his own, rather dignified, sound.
- yet: The design criteria stated that, " The monument should be distinctive yet dignified.
- very: Our memorial had been built to a very dignified design.
- well: The more remote, the more time must be allowed. o Mars well dignified in the 7th house suggests the woman is newly conceived.
- too: It was, in the eyes of the nation, primarily radio, and radio was then far too dignified to have such things.
Used with adjective complement
- look: A queue of people behind you giggle as you take the chair and try to look dignified for your moment of ' greatness ' .
- remain: Two weeks of rolling ship and frozen land requiring vast amounts of brain power just to remain dignified, certainly takes its toll.
- have: Modern American economists have dignified this common sense insight with the name of rational ignorance.
Browse dictionary entries near dignified
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