Elated vs Beholden - What's the difference?
elated | beholden |
Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased.
(elate)
Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.
*{{quote-news, year=2012
, date=June 26
, author=Genevieve Koski
, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
, work=The Onion AV Club
As adjectives the difference between elated and beholden
is that elated is extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased while beholden is obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.As a verb elated
is past tense of elate.elated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She was elated with her new car.
Synonyms
* ecstatic * euphoric * exultant * joyful * jubilant * overjoyedAntonyms
* displeased * dissatisfiedDerived terms
* elatedly (adverb) * elation (noun)Verb
(head)beholden
English
Alternative forms
*beholdingAdjective
(-)- From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
citation, page= , passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}} English adjectives ending in -en