Glorified vs Uplifted - What's the difference?
glorified | uplifted |
(glorify)
transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically)
:* The gyroscope is however merely a glorified spinning top ...
:* Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation.
:* If the captain was only a glorified first aid man as he claimed, the emphasis has to be on the glory he deserved for the way in which he did his job.
English sarcastic terms
(uplift)
To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
The act or result of being uplifted.
(geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
(colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.
As verbs the difference between glorified and uplifted
is that glorified is (glorify) while uplifted is (uplift).As an adjective glorified
is transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically).glorified
English
Verb
(head)- They sang hymns that glorified God.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her teaching degree was little more than a glorified babysitting course.
- 1959 Andrew Gray, "A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion"
- 1986 Roy Lubove, "The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935"
- 2004 Lloyd Manning Wells, "From Anzio to the Alps: an American soldier's story"