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

248 1.0

To make someone feel happier

is stronger and often includes proud high spirits beyond simple happiness

E

to excite

vsto elate

99 2.7

To make someone feel very happy, interested, or eager

is joyful pride rather than general stirred excitement

U

to uplift

vsto elate

64 3.2

To make someone feel happier and more hopeful

is stronger joy often tied to pride and high spirits

M

to make someone's day

vsto elate

• Informal

61 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

B

to bring joy

vsto elate

48 2.3

To make someone feel happy

is stronger happiness that often includes a sense of pride

L

to lift up

vsto elate

22 3.7

To make someone feel happier and more hopeful

is more intense joyful pride rather than general encouragement

L

to lift someone's spirits

vsto elate

17 3.9

To make someone feel happier when they are sad

is more intense happiness that fills someone with proud high spirits

E

to electrify

vsto elate

17 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

14 5.5

Make someone feel happier or more confident

creates prouder, higher joy rather than just encouragement

R

to raise someone's spirits

vsto elate

6 3.4

Help someone feel happier

produces higher spirits often including pride rather than mild cheer

I

to intoxicate

vsto elate

5 7.0

To make someone feel very excited and happy

is deep happy pride rather than an intense thrill or rush

E

to enthuse

vsto elate

4 5.5

To make someone feel excited about something

is deeper proud happiness rather than mere enthusiasm

E

to exalt

vsto elate

• Literature

3 8.1

To make someone feel very happy and inspired

is strong happiness that adds personal pride rather than nobility

G

to gladden

vsto elate

2 3.5

To make someone feel happy

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

E

to exhilarate

vsto elate

1 6.9

To make someone feel very happy and full of energy

is intense joyful pride rather than mostly energetic excitement

B

to buoy up

vsto elate

1 5.3

To make someone feel more cheerful and confident

creates greater proud high spirits rather than simple uplift

E

enlivened

vsto elate

1 4.9

Feels more lively and cheerful

is a fuller proud joy rather than simple increased liveliness

O

to overjoy

vsto elate

1 4.1

Make someone very happy

is very happy feeling but often tied to proud high spirits

L

to lift one's spirits

vsto elate

3.9

To make someone feel happier

is a stronger change producing very high spirits and proud pleasure

Antonyms

D

to depress

28 4.1

To make someone feel sad and lose hope

D

to dishearten

2 5.3

To make someone lose hope or confidence

How Happy

to elate

1 6.4

to thrill

44 2.1

to delight

31 2.1

to cheer

248 1.0

to please

372 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology