高揚・昂揚|こうようkouyou[0]heiban (flat)
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Which spelling to use
高揚For beginners, 高揚 is the most common written form and the recommended choice for ordinary writing.
昂揚昂揚 is a less common kanji-only variant of 高揚; learners will encounter it less often and generally need not choose it.
Definitions
- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbelevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 高揚する（こうようする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 高揚します（こうようします） |
| Negative (nai) | 高揚しない（こうようしない） |
| polite (masen) | 高揚しません（こうようしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 高揚せず・高揚せぬ（こうようせず・こうようせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 高揚した（こうようした） |
| polite (mashita) | 高揚しました（こうようしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 高揚しなかった（こうようしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 高揚しませんでした（こうようしませんでした） |
| Te form | 高揚して（こうようして） |
| Potential | 高揚できる（こうようできる） |
| Passive | 高揚される（こうようされる） |
| Causative | 高揚させる（こうようさせる） |
| Causative passive | 高揚させられる（こうようさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 高揚すれば（こうようすれば） |
| tara | 高揚したら（こうようしたら） |
| Volitional | 高揚しよう（こうようしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 高揚しましょう（こうようしましょう） |
| Imperative | 高揚しろ（こうようしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym高めるたかめるNeutralA neutral transitive verb for raising or enhancing something, used very broadly; 「高揚」 is specific to spirits or morale rising.
- Synonym盛り上げるもりあげるNeutralTo liven up an atmosphere or bring things to a climax; common in speech, as in 「場を盛り上げる」.
- Synonym発揚はつようWrittenWritten/formal prose for promoting something such as national prestige or spirit, as in 「国威発揚」.
- Synonym活気づけるかっきづけるNeutralTo make a person or place lively and full of energy, stressing vitality, as in 「町を活気づける」.
- Synonym鼓吹こすいWrittenWritten/formal prose. Rouses morale or fighting spirit, and advocates ideas; 「高揚」 is emotions rising or being raised, 「鼓吹」 stirring from outside.
- Related強めるつよめるNeutralTo strengthen or intensify something; used broadly and not limited to emotions or morale.
- Related増強ぞうきょうNeutralTo reinforce or augment troops, equipment and the like; about expanding capacity in numbers, with no link to emotions.
- Related亢進こうしんWrittenWritten/formal prose. A degree gradually intensifying, as in illness, hyperfunction or 「インフレの亢進」; often negative, where 「高揚」 is spirits rising.
- Related振り起こすふりおこすWrittenWritten/formal prose and rare; rouses courage or spirit, stressing a rise from a low or listless state.
- Related振作しんさくWrittenWritten/formal prose and rare; means reviving or restoring vigor, used mainly of industry or morale being bucked up.
- Related奮い起こすふるいおこすNeutralTo muster or pluck up courage and rouse one's spirit, as in 「勇気を奮い起こす」.
- Related奮激ふんげきWrittenWritten/formal prose and rare; being stirred or spurred into action by a stimulus.
- Antonym沈滞ちんたいWrittenWritten/formal prose antonym: stagnation and listlessness, the opposite of the rising spirits of 「高揚」.
- Antonym低落ていらくWrittenWritten/formal prose antonym: a fall or decline, the direct opposite of 「高揚」.
Use 「高揚」 for rising spirits, morale or atmosphere, as in 「高揚感」「士気が高揚する」. In speech, heating up an atmosphere calls for 「盛り上げる」; promoting national prestige is 「発揚」. The opposites are 「沈滞」 and 「低落」.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only
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