Dignity
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English
Noun
Dignity (plural dignities)Adjectives for Dignity
proper; proud; upright; informal; happy; delicate; external; lofty; lauded; gracious; supreme; simple; majestic; pleasant; complacent; noble; robust; brave; serene; calm; quiet; grave; unwinking; studied; measured; faultless; immaculate; elaborate; sure; stilted; cold; severe; savage impaired; faded; obedient; mysterious social; impassive; indescribable; forensic dashing; waddling; ridiculous; outraged poised; trembling; spacious; potential; outward; stoical; superb; forced; unbroken ageless; natural; silent; sententious; sad
Verbs for Dignity
achieve—; cast off—; detract from—; de¬velop—; discard—; dispose of—; enhance-; grope for—; halo in—; inject—; impair—; impart—; invest with—; lend—; maintain—; outrage—; preserve—; retain—; rob of—; shed—; shrug aside—; stress—; surpass—; sustain—; treat with—; vindicate—; win—.
Synonyms for Dignity
worth, worthiness, decorum, propriety, magnificence, grace, nobility, decency, elegance, station, greatness, repute, eminence, stateliness, majesty.
Antonyms for Dignity
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Thesaurus
notable, noteworthiness, panjandrum, pellucidity, perfection, person of renown, personage, personality, perspicuity, pillar of society, plainness, poise, polish, pomp, pomposity, position, power, power elite, prestige, pride, pride of bearing, pride of place, primness, princeliness, prominence, propriety, proud bearing, purity, rank, refinement, regality, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, respectability, restraint, rigidness, ritual, rituality, ruling circle, sachem, salience, sedateness, seemliness, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-importance, self-regard, self-respect, simplicity, smoothness, sobriety, solemnity, somebody, something, standing, starchiness, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, stiffness, stiltedness, straightforwardness, stylization, sublimity, taste, tastefulness, terseness, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, unaffectedness, venerability, very important person, virtue, weight, worth, worthiness, worthy, Atticism, Establishment, VIP, address, appropriateness, augustness, baron, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, brass, brass hat, buckram, cachet, celebrity, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, chasteness, chastity, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness, consequence, correctness, courtliness, decency, dignifiedness, dignitary, directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, elder, elegance, elegancy, elevation, eminence, esteem, ethicalness, ethics, etiquette, excellence, extrinsicality, face, fame, father, felicitousness, felicity, figure, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, form, formality, formalization, glory, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, grandeur, grandness, gravity, great man, greatness, hauteur, high place, honor, honorableness, impersonality, importance, important person, interests, kingliness, kudos, level, limpidity, lion, loftiness, lordliness, lords of creation, lucidity, magnate, magnificence, majesty, man of mark, memorability, merit, mogul, morality, nabob, name, naturalness, neatness, nobility, nobleness, notability,
Etymology
From Middle English dignitee < Old French dignite < Latin dignitas (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”) < dignus (“worthy, appropriate”), probably akin to decus (“honor, esteem”) and decet (“it is fitting”). Cognate to deign.
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