About The Word Elate
Learn about the word Elate to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Elate definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Elate
Elate Definition And Meaning |
---|
What's The Definition Of Elate?
[v] fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
Synonyms | Synonyms for Elate: intoxicate | lift up | pick up | uplift Related Terms | Find terms related to Elate: brighten | buoy | cheer | cheer up | delight | do proud | elevate | encourage | exalt | excite | exhilarate | flush | gladden | gratify | inspire | lift | make proud | overjoy | set up | stimulate | uplift See Also | beatify | exalt | excite | exhilarate | inebriate | joy | puff | rejoice | shake | shake up | stimulate | stir | thrill Elate In Webster's Dictionary \E*late"\, a. [L. elatus elevated, fig., elated, proud
(the figure, perh., being borrowed from a prancing horse); e
out + latus (used as p. p. of ferre to bear), for tlatus, and
akin to E. tolerate. See {Tolerate}, and cf. {Extol}.]
1. Lifted up; raised; elevated.
With upper lip elate. --Fenton.
And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er
thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning
good, repressing ill. --Sir W.
Jones.
2. Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed
or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant.
O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon
dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate. --Pope.
Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its
own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
--Mrs. H. H.
Jackson.
Syn: Puffed up; lofty; proud; haughty; exalted; inspirited;
transported; delighted; overjoyed.
\E*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Elating}.] 1. To raise; to exalt. [R.] By the potent sun elated high. --Thomson. 2. To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud. Foolishly elated by spiritual pride. --Warburton. You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Frontal cortex ‐ the cortex of the…
- Sadi carnot ‐ French physicist who founded thermodynamics…
- Vomit ‐ the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through…
- Anaplasmosis ‐ a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar…
- Caught up(p) ‐ having become involved involuntarily; "caught up in the excitement…
- Vanilla ice cream ‐ Ice cream flavored with…
- Monopolise ‐ have or exploit a monopoly of; "OPEC wants to monopolize oil"…
- Golden-crested kinglet ‐ European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow…
- Fuchsia excorticata ‐ erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon-flushed…
- Family teredinidae ‐ shipworms