ELATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elate mean? 

• ELATE (verb)
  The verb ELATE has 1 sense:

1. fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

  Familiarity information: ELATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they elate    ... he / she / it elates   
Past simple: elated   
Past participle: elated   
-ing form: elating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift

Context example:

Music can uplift your spirits

Hypernyms (to "elate" is one way to...):

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

Cause:

joy; rejoice (feel happiness or joy)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "elate"):

beatify (make blessedly happy)

puff (make proud or conceited)

beatify; exalt; exhilarate; inebriate; thrill; tickle pink (fill with sublime emotion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The good news will elate her
The performance is likely to elate Sue

Antonym:

depress (lower someone's spirits; make downhearted)

Derivation:

elation (a feeling of joy and pride)

elation (an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression)

 Context examples 

Martin was elated—so elated that when he recollected that The Hornet owed him fifteen dollars for "The Peri and the Pearl," he decided forthwith to go and collect it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For, though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I was greatly elated with my new command, and pleased with the bright, sunshiny weather and these different prospects of the coast.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yes, only ten days ago had he elated her by his pointed regard—had he even confused her by his too significant reference!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

My father, however, did not appear to be elated at my mother’s triumphant rejoinder.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was elated.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Much elated with her success, Jo did 'tell on', all about their plays and plans, their hopes and fears for Father, and the most interesting events of the little world in which the sisters lived.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was greatly elated by these orders; but my heart smote me for my selfishness, when I witnessed their effect on Mr. Dick, who was so low-spirited at the prospect of our separation, and played so ill in consequence, that my aunt, after giving him several admonitory raps on the knuckles with her dice-box, shut up the board, and declined to play with him any more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was wonderful that her friends should seem so little elated by the possession of such a home, that the consciousness of it should be so meekly borne.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)