adj
Meaning 1
Elated; exultant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
elate
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Pronunciation
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/ɪˈleɪt/
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rhymes with -eɪt
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adj
Meaning 2
Lifted up; raised; elevated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To make joyful or proud.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cheer up, hearten, beatify, enrapture, begladden, blissen, bright, cheer, fetch, cherish, content, delight, elate, elevate, enbliss, exhilarate, fain, gay, gladden, gladden someone's heart, gratify, happify, happy, jollify, laetificate, light up, make someone's day, perk up, please, raise someone's spirits, rejoice, turn the frown upside down, upcheer, warm someone's heart, warm the cockles of someone's heart
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To lift up; raise; elevate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Music can uplift your spirits
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate
Antonyms: depress
Broader terms: stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
Narrower terms: beatify, puff, exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt
History
Etymology
From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: въодушевявам (vǎoduševjavam) — to make joyful or proud
- Czech: udělat radost — to make joyful or proud
- Czech: zvednout náladu — to make joyful or proud
- Dutch: verrukken — to make joyful or proud
- Dutch: aanvuren — to make joyful or proud
- Ido: gayigar — to make joyful or proud
- Ido: exaltar — to make joyful or proud
- Romanian: exalta — to make joyful or proud
- Russian: поднимать настроение (podnimatʹ nastrojenije) — to make joyful or proud
- Russian: подбодрить (podbodritʹ) — to make joyful or proud
- Spanish: hacer elato — to make joyful or proud
- Spanish: poner elato — to make joyful or proud
- Spanish: elacionar — to make joyful or proud
- Bulgarian: ободрявам (obodrjavam) — to lift up, raise, elevate
- Czech: povznést — to lift up, raise, elevate
- Czech: pozdvihnout — to lift up, raise, elevate
- Czech: pozvednout — to lift up, raise, elevate
- Dutch: oplaten — to lift up, raise, elevate
- Latin: levō — to lift up, raise, elevate
- Latin: ēlevō — to lift up, raise, elevate
- Māori: whakamanamana — to lift up, raise, elevate
- Romanian: ridica — to lift up, raise, elevate
- Romanian: înălța — to lift up, raise, elevate