1. Causing cheerfulness, happiness, hope, or moral elevation
   "The uplifting speech inspired the graduates to pursue their dreams"

1. The rise of something
   "the uplifting of the clouds revealed the blue of a summer sky"

1. Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
   "Music can uplift your spirits";
   - elate, lift up, pick up, intoxicate
    
2. Lift up or elevate
   "The crane uplifted the heavy container"
    
3. Increase or improve (price, condition, quantity, etc.)
   "The new marketing strategy uplifted sales by 20%"; "The program aims to uplift disadvantaged communities"
    
4. Lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces
   "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"

Derived forms: upliftings

Type of: arise, ascension, ascent, come up, excite, go up, lift, move up, push up, rise, rising, shake, shake up, stir, uprise [archaic, literary]

Encyclopedia: Uplifting