Word Meanings - MAGNIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one

Additional info about word: MAGNIFY

1. To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified. Grew. 2. To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held. On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel. Joshua iv. 14. 3. To praise highly; to land; to extol. O, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. Ps. xxxiv. 3. 4. To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty. To magnify one's self , to exhibit pride and haughtiness; to boast. -- To magnify one's self against , to oppose with pride.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MAGNIFY)

• Aggrandize
• Promote
• dignify
• exalt
• ennoble
• enrich
• advance
• augment
• make great
• magnify
• elevate
• signalize
• Aggravate
• Exasperate
• provoke
• wound
• heighten
• intensify
• irritate
• make worse
• increase
• enhance embitter
• Applaud
• Laud
• praise
• extol
• approve
• eulogize
• commend
• cry up
• encourage
• cheer
• Exaggerate
• Amplify
• enlarge
• overstate
• overdraw
• strain
• overpaint
• overestimate
• Glorify
• Exalt
• honor
• laud
• aggrandize
• adore
• panegyrize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MAGNIFY)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to MAGNIFY)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• PANEGYRIZE
  To indulge in panegyrics. Mitford.
• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• ADORE
  adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR