VULGARISING Antonyms

• tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance

• enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

• investing with dignity or honor

• tending to exalt

• the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it

• serving to purge or rid of sin

• freeing from noxious matter

• acting like an antiseptic

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• a particular society at a particular time and place

• the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group

• all the knowledge and values shared by a society

• (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)

• a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

• the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization

• the raising of plants or animals

• grow in a special preparation

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• raise from a lower to a higher position

• raise in rank or condition

• a worldly-wise person

• make less natural or innocent

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

• make more complex or refined

• confer dignity or honor upon

• give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility