elate

Other forms of elate

past tense

elated·

present participle

elating·

third person

elates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about elate

What does elate mean?

elate means "fill with high spirits; fill with optimism".

How many syllables are in elate?

elate has 2 syllables: e-late. The stress falls on "late". In IPA it is /ɪˈleɪt/.

What is another word for elate?

Close synonyms include lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of elate?

The recorded antonyms are depress.

Is elate a common word?

elate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with elate?

56 words rhyme with elate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.