Definition of elate Elate

/ɪlejˈt/ - [ileyt] - e•late

We found 10 definitions of elate from 5 different sources.

What does elate mean?

Verb elates, elating, elated
elate - fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"
		lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate
		cast down, deject, dispirit, demoralise, dismay, demoralize, depress, get down fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
		shake up, stimulate, excite, stir, shake cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
		beatify declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"
		puff blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
		exhilarate, tickle pink, beatify, inebriate, exalt, thrill fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"

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elate (a.)
Lifted up; raised; elevated.
elate (a.)
Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant.
elate (v. t.)
To raise; to exalt.
elate (v. t.)
To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud.

elate
e-lāt′, adj. lifted up: puffed up with success: exalted.—v.t. to raise or exalt: to elevate: to make proud.—adv. Elat′edly.—ns. Elat′edness; El′ater, an elastic filament in certain liverworts and scale-mosses: a skip-jack beetle; Elatē′rium, a substance contained in the juice of the fruit of the squirting cucumber, yielding the purgative Elat′erin; Elā′tion, pride resulting from success. [L. elātus, pa.p. of efferre—e, out, ferre, to carry.]

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