elate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
    intoxicate; uplift; pick up; lift up.
    • Music can uplift your spirits

WordNet

E*late" adjective
Etymology
L. elatus elevated, fig., elated, proud (the figure, perh., being borrowed from a prancing horse); e out + latus (used as p. p. of ferre to bear), for tlatus, and akin to E. tolerate. See Tolerate, and cf. Extol.
Definitions
  1. Lifted up; raised; elevated.
    With upper lip elate. Fenton.
    And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.
  2. Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant.
    O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate. Pope.
    Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
    Syn. -- Puffed up; lofty; proud; haughty; exalted; inspirited; transported; delighted; overjoyed.
E*late" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Elated; present participle & verbal noun Elating
Definitions
  1. To raise; to exalt. R.
    By the potent sun elated high. Thomson.
  2. To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud.
    Foolishly elated by spiritual pride. Warburton.
    You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Webster 1913