dignified

[ dig-nuh-fahyd ]

/ ˈdɪg nəˌfaɪd /

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adjective

characterized or marked by dignity of aspect or manner; stately; decorous: dignified conduct.

Origin of dignified

First recorded in 1660–70; dignify + -ed²

SYNONYMS FOR dignified

grave, august, noble.

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dig·ni·fied·ly

[dig-nuh-fahyd-lee, -fahy-id-] /ˈdɪg nəˌfaɪd li, -ˌfaɪ ɪd-/, adverb dig·ni·fied·ness, noun qua·si-dig·ni·fied, adjective un·dig·ni·fied, adjective

un·dig·ni·fied·ly, adverb

Words nearby dignified

diglossia, diglot, diglyceride, diglycol, diglycolic acid, dignified, dignify, dignitary, dignity, digonal, digoneutic

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They are left alone; they die a horrible, undignified death alone.

Health Care Worker Pleads With UN: Help Ebola Victims Dying ‘Horrible, Undignified Death’ |Abby Haglage |September 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
As traditions go, the farewell speech is not a great one: undignified for the departing anchor, uncomfortable for everyone else.

Humiliating Day for TV News, From Ann Curry’s Exit to CNN, Fox Debacles |Rebecca Dana |June 29, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Drop in one or two that the Republicans will attack as undignified to the occasion.

Obama Should Use Fighting Words in the 2012 State of the Union |Michael Tomasky |January 24, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Character seems precisely to be what the undignified Palin lacks.

Leave Palin Alone |Lee Siegel |November 15, 2009 |DAILY BEAST

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson called the idea of parties “undignified.”

Let's Not Have a Ball |Wendy Button |December 9, 2008 |DAILY BEAST
Very dull and undignified until the National Anthem, which upset us all.

The Story of My Life |Ellen Terry
He did not wish to imperil Alan's superb aloofness by involving him in the acrimonious and undignified defence of a friend.

Sinister Street, vol. 1 |Compton Mackenzie
There she heeled at an undignified angle, and her crew yelled aloud.

Soldiers Three, Part II. |Rudyard Kipling
I don't like this cobbling sort of business—I don't like it at all; it's undignified; it's not my place.

Moby Dick; or The Whale |Herman Melville
Miss Jenkyns wondered what could be the matter for some time before she took the undignified step of sending Jenny out to inquire.

Cranford |Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

British Dictionary definitions for undignified (1 of 2)

undignified

/ (ʌnˈdɪɡnɪˌfaɪd) /

adjective

lacking in dignity

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dignified

/ (ˈdɪɡnɪˌfaɪd) /

adjective

characterized by dignity of manner or appearance; stately

Derived forms of dignified

dignifiedly, adverb dignifiedness, noun

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