Just want a quick opinion on a word, based upon what someone wrote on a facebook thread following an article I posted. Do you see the word "exalted" as a positive or negative word?
Depends if you liked being salted in the first place. It can be either, depending on context. It can mean high or elevated, in terms of both character or position, but it can also mean exaggerated, when someone has an inflated sense of their own worth or importance. I'd have to see it in a sentence to know. Although I'd probably get it wrong.
Depends on the context it's used in, can be either. Can't see polls on mobile skin so can't vote. Undecided anyway.
Jay has summed it up pretty well, however for voting purposes I am going with positive but only because I hear it used in a positive context more frequently than a negative.
I did want to start it off without context because I've just always thought of it as a positive word and was quite surprised when my sister-in-law said it was negative. Anyway, now I have figures of 14-2 saying it's positive. So now for the context, it was in a debate about the US Supreme Court ruling yesterday that most of you probably don't know about, nor would you need to, hence another reason i wasn't putting context. I posted up this article in the debate http://theweek.com/article/index/263225/stop-calling-hobby-lobby-a-christian-business and the line in question being just under the headline saying "The craft store is exalted by the conservative faithful" She being religious and well to the right in the US said "The word that should be used to describe what Hobby Lobby does is respected rather than the negative term "exalted""
It's definitely used in a positive manner in that article. When it's used negatively it's done kind of sarcastically. That clearly isn't. At all.
