elated
Other forms: elatedly
If you're elated you aren't just happy — you're over the moon, absolutely excited, and bursting with pride. Like the way you feel after winning a scholarship to your first-choice college or mastering a back handspring.
You might be elated to hear you got that dream job, and your whole family might be elated when your favorite baseball team wins the World Series. Feeling elated is all about being so extremely proud and overjoyed, and usually happens as a result of an accomplishment. So if you've just achieved something big, feel free to be elated — and enjoy your time on cloud nine.
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exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits“the elated winner”“felt elated and excited”synonyms: giddyexultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphantjoyful and proud especially because of triumph or successsublimelifted up or set highupliftedexalted emotionally especially with prideeuphoriccharacterized by an exaggerated feeling of well-being or elationhappyenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasurejoyousfull of or characterized by joyantonyms:dejectedaffected or marked by low spiritsamortutterly cast downblue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spiritedfilled with melancholy and despondencyglummoody and melancholicunhappyexperiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
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full of high-spirited delight
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