elating

1. 1.

   making lively and joyful

   Synonymsexhilarating

   Similarexciting

Questions about elating

What does elating mean?

elating means "making lively and joyful".

How many syllables are in elating?

elating has 3 syllables: e-la-ting. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ɪˈleɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for elating?

Close synonyms include exhilarating. 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.

Is elating a common word?

elating 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.