elate
/ɪˈleɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; / Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears: […]"
- "Oh 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."
- "c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield with upper lip elate"
- "a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."
Etymology
From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).