to elate

Examples

• All

• I was elated when I received the news that I got the job.

• The researchers were elated with their discovery, though they recognized it as the first step in a long process.

  Academic text (2006)

• I put the phone down, and I was elated.

  Bisping (2021)

• At first, the prisoner felt elated over this expression of confidence, but then he started to become worried.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Folks, I have played football and gone home exhausted, I have broadcast games and gone home elated, but today, I go home inspired.

  When the Game Stands Tall (2014)

• When I heard his plans, I was elated, humbled, and relieved.

  Academic text (2007)

• Elle looks at Emmet, elated at what's just happened.

  Fiction book (2001)

• After the first tentative bite, I was surprised and elated to discover that they were not in the least slimy.

  Fiction book (1990)

• When John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election, the Federal Reserve bankers were elated.

  4 Presidents (2020)

• Whatever it was, he was beginning to feel strangely elated, already imagining his name spread proudly across the front-page headlines.

  Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

C

to cheer

vsto elate

392 1.0

To make someone feel happier

is stronger and often includes proud high spirits beyond simple happiness

E

to excite

vsto elate

331 2.7

To make someone feel very happy, interested, or eager

is joyful pride rather than general stirred excitement

U

to uplift

vsto elate

23 3.2

To make someone feel happier and more hopeful

is stronger joy often tied to pride and high spirits

O

to overjoy

vsto elate

21 4.1

Make someone very happy

is very happy feeling but often tied to proud high spirits

L

to lift up

vsto elate

19 3.7

To make someone feel happier and more hopeful

is more intense joyful pride rather than general encouragement

E

to electrify

vsto elate

14 4.1

To make people feel very excited and want to act

is a lasting proud happiness rather than a sudden burst of feeling

H

to hearten

vsto elate

13 5.5

Make someone feel happier or more confident

creates prouder, higher joy rather than just encouragement

E

to exhilarate

vsto elate

12 6.9

To make someone feel very happy and full of energy

is intense joyful pride rather than mostly energetic excitement

B

to bring joy

vsto elate

12 2.3

To make someone feel happy

is stronger happiness that often includes a sense of pride

L

to lift one's spirits

vsto elate

8 3.9

To make someone feel happier

is a stronger change producing very high spirits and proud pleasure

E

to enthuse

vsto elate

7 5.5

To make someone feel excited about something

is deeper proud happiness rather than mere enthusiasm

E

to exalt

vsto elate

• Literature

6 8.1

To make someone feel very happy and inspired

is strong happiness that adds personal pride rather than nobility

I

to intoxicate

vsto elate

4 7.0

To make someone feel very excited and happy

is deep happy pride rather than an intense thrill or rush

M

to make someone's day

vsto elate

• Informal

2 3.0

To give someone a lot of happiness, often by a small kind act

is broader intense happiness often including pride rather than surprise pleasure

G

to gladden

vsto elate

1 3.5

To make someone feel happy

is more intense happiness often mixed with pride rather than plain joy

L

to lift someone's spirits

vsto elate

1 3.9

To make someone feel happier when they are sad

is more intense happiness that fills someone with proud high spirits

R

to raise someone's spirits

vsto elate

1 3.4

Help someone feel happier

produces higher spirits often including pride rather than mild cheer

E

enlivened

vsto elate

4.9

Feels more lively and cheerful

is a fuller proud joy rather than simple increased liveliness

B

to buoy up

vsto elate

5.3

To make someone feel more cheerful and confident

creates greater proud high spirits rather than simple uplift

Antonyms

D

to depress

32 4.1

To make someone feel sad and lose hope

D

to dishearten

8 5.3

To make someone lose hope or confidence

How Happy

to elate

19 6.4

to thrill

201 2.1

to delight

79 2.1

to cheer

392 1.0

to please

216 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology