Narrate vs Elate - What's the difference?
narrate | elate |
To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
To give an account.
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
In lang=en terms the difference between narrate and elate
is that narrate is to relate a story or series of events by speech or writing while elate is to lift up; raise; elevate.As verbs the difference between narrate and elate
is that narrate is to relate a story or series of events by speech or writing while elate is to make joyful or proud.As an adjective elate is
elated; exultant.narrate
English
Verb
(narrat)Synonyms
* (relate) tell * (give an account) reportelate
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.
