Elate vs Delighted - What's the difference?
elate | delighted | Synonyms |
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
Elate is a synonym of delighted.
As verbs the difference between elate and delighted
is that elate is to make joyful or proud while delighted is (delight).As adjectives the difference between elate and delighted
is that elate is elated; exultant while delighted is greatly pleased.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.