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Synonyms for elate

  • verb
  • adjective

Most common

content cheer gladden exhilarate

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Cheer — to make joyful or proud

cheer, please, gladden, exhilarate, content, cheer up, delight, flush, excite, animate, buoy, rejoice, gratify, enrapture, perk up, hearten, beatify, jollify, happify, enbliss, blissen, stimulate

2. Lift

lift, lift up, uplift, intoxicate

Adjective

transported, flushed, exalted, overjoyed

Antonyms

depress

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Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To make joyful or proud.

  2. v. 2

    To lift up; raise; elevate.

  3. adj. 1

    Elated; exultant.

Related words

Word family
elatement elater elated elation

Forms

Past participle
elated
e.g. elated → cheered, pleased, gladdened, exhilarated…

Example sentences

  • content Are you content with your position in the company?
  • cheer He tried to cheer up his wife, but wasn't able to.
  • exhilarate A Christmas present like that will certainly exhilarate him.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
elatefalling
contentsteady
cheerrising
gladdensteady
exhilaratesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
lift1, buoy2
5 letters
cheer1, flush1
6 letters
please1, excite2, uplift2
7 letters
content2, delight2, rejoice2, flushed1, animate3, exalted3, gratify3, gladden2, hearten2, beatify4, jollify, happify, enbliss, blissen
9 letters
stimulate3, overjoyed3, enrapture3
10 letters
intoxicate4, exhilarate4
11 letters
transported3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (buoy2 = 2 syllables).