Elate vs Puffed_up - What's the difference?
elate | puffed_up | 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
To be proud
(puff up)
Elate is a synonym of puffed_up.
As verbs the difference between elate and puffed_up
is that elate is to make joyful or proud while puffed_up is (puff up).As adjectives the difference between elate and puffed_up
is that elate is elated; exultant while puffed_up is to be proud.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
* ----puffed_up
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Since he was elected school prefect, he's become really puffed up .