ELATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elated mean? 

• ELATED (adjective)
  The adjective ELATED has 2 senses:

1. exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits

2. full of high-spirited delight

  Familiarity information: ELATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits

Context example:

felt elated and excited

Similar:

exultant; exulting; jubilant; prideful; rejoicing; triumphal; triumphant (joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success)

exhilarated; gladdened (made joyful)

high; in high spirits (happy and excited and energetic)

sublime (lifted up or set high)

uplifted (exalted emotionally especially with pride)

Also:

euphoric (exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation)

happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)

joyous (full of or characterized by joy)

Antonym:

dejected (affected or marked by low spirits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Full of high-spirited delight

Synonyms:

elated; gleeful; joyful; jubilant

Context example:

a joyful heart

Similar:

joyous (full of or characterized by joy)

 Context examples 

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

He was elated.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

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)

Martin rode down town on an electric car, and as he watched the houses and cross-streets slipping by he was aware of a regret that he was not more elated over his friend's success and over his own signal victory.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)