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Definition of Elated
1. Adjective. Exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits. "Felt elated and excited"
Also: Euphoric, Happy, Joyous
Antonyms: Dejected
2. Adjective. Full of high-spirited delight. "A joyful heart"
Similar to: Joyous
Derivative terms: Gleefulness, Joyfulness, Jubilance, Jubilancy, Jubilate
Definition of Elated
1. Adjective. Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased. ¹
2. Verb. (past of elate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elated
1. elate [v] - See also: elate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elated
Literary usage of Elated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys: Collected During His Travels in the East by John Lewis Burckhardt (1831)
"MESSENGERS were immediately despatched to Constantinople and Cairo with intelligence
of the victory; and throughout Hedjaz the Turks became elated, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"Romanus, elated by impunity, and irritated by resistance, was still continued in
the military command ; till the Africans were provoked by his avarice, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... of the lower court entered on the 26th day of October, 1886, dismissing the
bill of the plaintiffs below for reasons elated in the opinion of the court. ..."
4. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"Blind Mans Buff was sold to JR Smith for the sum of twelve guineas, and thé story
is told how, elated with his success, Morland made a resolution that he ..."
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