Elate vs Belate - What's the difference?
elate | belate |
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
(label) To retard; cause something to be late; delay; benight.
In transitive terms the difference between elate and belate
is that elate is to lift up; raise; elevate while belate is to retard; cause something to be late; delay; benight.As an adjective elate
is elated; exultant.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.
