uplifting adjective 1noun 1forms 3 adjective1 •Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting. noun1 •The act of something being lifted upward.Whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex. — 1851 formsupliftings · more uplifting · most uplifting