dignity
[noun]
Synonyms:
- decorum, courtliness, grandeur, gravity, loftiness, majesty, nobility, solemnity, stateliness
- honour, eminence, importance, rank, respectability, standing, status
- self-importance, pride, self-esteem, self-respect

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Contrasted words: impropriety, indecency, indecorum, unseemliness
Related Words: excellence, merit, perfection, virtue, ethicalness, ethics, morality, nobility, nobleness, augustness, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, majesty, address, poise

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

dig‧ni‧ty /ˈdɪɡnəti, ˈdɪɡnɪti/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: dignité, from Latin dignitas 'worth', from dignus 'deserving admiration']

1. the ability to behave in a calm controlled way even in a difficult situation
with dignity
The family faced their ordeal with dignity.
an appearance of quiet dignity

2. your dignity your sense of your own value or importance
retain/lose your dignity
Old people need to retain their dignity and independence.
Arguing was beneath her dignity (=was something she thought she was too important to do).

3. the fact of being respected or deserving respect
with dignity
Patients should be allowed to die with dignity.
Prisoners should be treated with regard for human dignity.

4. a calm and serious quality
dignity of
the dignity of the occasion

5. stand on your dignity formal to demand to be treated with proper respect

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

dignity
noun
ADJ. enormous, great | calm, quiet She spoke to him with quiet dignity.
human, personal the importance of human dignity
VERB + DIGNITY have, possess These people have enormous dignity.
keep, maintain, preserve, retain We all want to maintain our dignity in old age.
give sb Being treated in the privacy of your own room gives you more dignity.
lose The awful thing about old age is losing your dignity.
destroy, rob/strip sb of, threaten Slavery destroys human dignity. Keeping prisoners in such dreadful conditions strips them of all dignity.
muster With as much dignity as he could muster, he left the room.
stand on (= insist on the respect you think you deserve) She was never one to stand on her dignity.
PREP. beneath your ~ He clearly regarded manual work as beneath his dignity.
with ~ the right to die with dignity
PHRASES an air of dignity His aristocratic voice gives him an air of dignity and power.
lacking in dignity We felt that the way she was treated was lacking in dignity.
a lack of dignity, a loss of dignity He hoped that he could change his mind without loss of dignity.
a sense of dignity She had a strong sense of dignity.
with your dignity intact He needed a way to retreat with his dignity intact.

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