Delight vs Elate - What's the difference?
delight | elate |
Joy; pleasure.
* Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2
* Shakespeare
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* Milton:
* (Greensleeves):
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
* Tennyson
(label) To have or take great pleasure
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 delight and elate
is that delight is to give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly while elate is to make joyful or proud.As a noun delight
is joy; pleasure.As an adjective elate is
elated; exultant.delight
English
Noun
(en noun)- A fool hath no delight in understanding.
- Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
- Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight .
- Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight,
Derived terms
* undelight * delightfulVerb
(en verb)- Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
Derived terms
* delight inExternal links
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* *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.
