Ecstatic vs Elate - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between ecstatic and elate

is that ecstatic is feeling or characterized by ecstasy while elate is elated; exultant.

is transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.

to make joyful or proud.

* ecstatick (obsolete) * extatic (obsolete) * extatick (obsolete) * extatique (qualifier)

(en adjective)

Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.

Extremely happy.

Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.

ecstatic''' gaze; '''ecstatic trance

* Hammond

This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy.

* blissful * delirious * elated * euphoric * joyful * joyous

(en noun)

(in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.

* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.11:

I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.

(elat)

To make joyful or proud.

To lift up; raise; elevate.

(head)

elated; exultant

* Alexander Pope

O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .

* Mrs. H. H. Jackson

Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.

(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.

* Fenton

with upper lip elate

* Sir W. Jones

And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

* (English Citations of "elate")

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