What does elate mean?
Elate means (transitive) To make joyful or proud..
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/ɪˈleɪt/ · verb
(transitive) To make joyful or proud..
That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; / Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears: […]
Oh thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.
Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield with upper lip elate
a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Use elate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Elate means (transitive) To make joyful or proud..
Common synonyms include cheer up, hearten, beatify, enrapture.
Possible antonyms include dismay, deject, depress, demoralize.
That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; / Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears: […]
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