dignity

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

dig·nity [dignity dignities] BrE [ˈdɪɡnəti] NAmE [ˈdɪɡnəti] noun uncountable
1. a calm and serious manner that deserves respect
•She accepted the criticism with quiet dignity.
2. the fact of being given honour and respect by people
•the dignity of work
•The terminally ill should be allowed to die with dignity.
3. a sense of your own importance and value
•It's difficult to preserve your dignity when you have no job and no home.
Idioms: ↑beneath your dignity ▪ ↑stand on your dignity

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French dignete, from Latin dignitas, from dignus ‘worthy’.

Thesaurus:
dignity noun U
•He needed a way to retreat without loss of dignity.
pride • • self-respect • • self-esteem • • feelings • |sometimes disapproving ego •
personal dignity/pride/self-esteem/feelings
damage sb's dignity/pride/self-respect/self-esteem/ego
lose/keep sb's dignity/pride/self-respect

Example Bank:
•He brings a quiet dignity to the role.
•He clearly regarded manual work as beneath his dignity.
•He hoped that he could change his mind without loss of dignity.
•He needed a way to retreat with his dignity intact.
•His aristocratic voice gives him an air of dignity and power.
•Keeping prisoners in such dreadful conditions strips them of all dignity.
•She had a strong sense of dignity.
•She spoke to him with quiet dignity.
•She was never one to stand on her dignity.
•Slavery destroys human dignity.
•The awful thing about old age is losing your dignity.
•These people have enormous dignity.
•We all want to maintain our dignity in old age.
•We felt that the way she was treated was lacking in dignity.
•With as much dignity as he could muster, he left the room.
•the importance of human dignity
•the right to die with dignity
•It's difficult to preserve your dignity when you have no job and no home.
•Money means independence and personal dignity.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  lordliness, gravitas, self-respect, self-regard, self-worth