Elevate vs Humiliate - What's the difference?
elevate | humiliate |
To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.
In lang=en terms the difference between elevate and humiliate
is that elevate is to increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound while humiliate is to injure a person's dignity and self-respect.As verbs the difference between elevate and humiliate
is that elevate is to raise (something) to a higher position; to lift while humiliate is to injure a person's dignity and self-respect.As an adjective elevate
is (obsolete) elevated; raised aloft.elevate
English
Verb
(elevat)- to elevate the voice
- The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.
- (Jeremy Taylor)