Synonyms of putting/placing (someone) on a pedestal

putting/placing (someone) on a pedestal

phrase

present participle of put/place (someone) on a pedestal

as in elevating

to treat or regard (someone) as extraordinarily good, successful, important, etc.

When you're in love, there's a tendency to put your crush on a pedestal.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• elevating
• decorating
• loving
• celebrating
• recognizing
• exalting
• acknowledging
• apotheosizing
• aggrandizing
• lionizing
• canonizing
• deifying
• enshrining
• respecting
• ennobling
• cheering
• worshiping
• enthroning
• congratulating
• enskying
• playing up
• admiring
• regarding
• romanticizing
• dignifying
• magnifying
• worshipping
• idealizing
• revering
• reverencing
• glorifying
• highlighting
• praising
• promoting
• venerating
• fêting
• honoring
• complimenting
• adoring
• citing
• uplifting
• advancing
• applauding
• boasting
• commending
• extolling
• saluting
• upgrading
• hailing
• acclaiming
• lauding
• eulogizing
• touting
• lifting
• raising
• spotlighting
• feting
• boosting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• taking down
• lowering
• writing off
• putting down
• degrading
• humiliating
• sinking
• demeaning
• shaming
• fouling
• humbling
• smirching
• disconcerting
• confusing
• crying down
• embarrassing
• debasing
• discrediting
• dishonoring
• chastening
• diminishing
• minimizing
• knocking (someone) off his/her pedestal
• cheapening
• rattling
• disgracing
• confounding
• mortifying
• criticizing
• discounting
• ridiculing
• abasing
• disparaging
• detracting
• flustering
• discountenancing
• discomfiting
• belittling
• decrying
• depreciating
• insulting
• fazing
• abashing
• maligning
• slandering
• violating
• castigating
• defiling
• defaming
• libelling
• nonplussing
• denouncing
• libeling
• nonplusing
• affronting
• reprehending
• bad-mouthing
• condemning
• damning
• execrating
• censuring
• offending
• desecrating
• reprobating
• blaspheming
• profaning
• scorning
• disrespecting
• smearing
• slighting
• outraging
• piquing
• slurring