Elate vs Enliven - What's the difference?
elate | enliven | Related terms |
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
(obsolete) To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
Elate is a related term of enliven.
In lang=en terms the difference between elate and enliven
is that elate is to lift up; raise; elevate while enliven is to make more lively, cheerful or interesting.As verbs the difference between elate and enliven
is that elate is to make joyful or proud while enliven is (obsolete|transitive) to give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.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.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "elate")Anagrams
* ----enliven
English
Verb
(en verb)- The game was much enlivened when both teams scored within five minutes of each other.