as in ecstatic
experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
she was elated upon learning that she had been accepted by her first-choice college
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as in excited
to fill with great joy
the winning of the state basketball championship elated the whole town
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Recent Examples of elated
Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
While the cameras rolled, the boy seemed elated to have received the console.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
Boldy’s breakaway goal after taking another minor Hynes hasn’t been elated with Boldy’s offensive-zone penalties lately.
—Michael Russo, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
They were still elated by their victory, which ended their own lives of displacement, spent in tents, and those of many families from the town, who were already coming home.
—Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2024
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Lydie’s elated, of course, and Jack’s delighted too.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
While the cameras rolled, the boy seemed elated to have received the console.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
Boldy’s breakaway goal after taking another minor Hynes hasn’t been elated with Boldy’s offensive-zone penalties lately.
—Michael Russo, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
They were still elated by their victory, which ended their own lives of displacement, spent in tents, and those of many families from the town, who were already coming home.
—Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elated
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The title track starts off sounding like gamelan music, then turns into a busy-grooved evocation on finding catharsis by going for a swim at a busy beach, creating her own ecstatic iteration of traditional baptismal blues imagery.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
15 Jan. 2025
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Breakthroughs in reasoning are why many AI experts waxed ecstatic over OpenAI’s release of its o3 and o3 mini models last month.—
Clint Boulton,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Marketers are right to be excited by the potential of AI.—
Forrester,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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You must be excited your film is doing so well.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
17 Dec. 2024
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Other tribes of music-heads danced through dawn on muddy hillsides, barely sleeping or eating through the driving rain, dazed but giddy to take part in a massive, improbable event.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Jan. 2025
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Our mammoth game is the last one, which just has to make the NFL schedule-makers giddy.—
Chris Branch,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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“Elated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elated. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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