Belated vs Elate - What's the difference?
belated | elate |
(belate)
Later in relation to the proper time something should have happened.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 19
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=England 1-0 Ukraine
, work=BBC Sport
To make joyful or proud.
To lift up; raise; elevate.
elated; exultant
* Alexander Pope
* Mrs. H. H. Jackson
(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
* Fenton
* Sir W. Jones
As verbs the difference between belated and elate
is that belated is past tense of belate while elate is to make joyful or proud.As adjectives the difference between belated and elate
is that belated is later in relation to the proper time something should have happened while elate is elated; exultant.belated
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Happy belated birthday!
citation, page= , passage=England manager Roy Hodgson instantly restored Rooney after a two-match suspension in place of Andy Carroll with orders to make a belated mark on the campaign after sitting out the draw against France and victory against Sweden.}}
Synonyms
* tardy * late * overdueDerived terms
*Anagrams
*elate
English
Verb
(elat)Adjective
(head)- O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .
- Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
- with upper lip elate
- And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.