elating

The word “elating” has 3 syllables: e-la-ting

It's pronounced as /ɪˈleɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for elating?

In the thesaurus, “elating” has 123 synonyms and 101 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for elating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for elating

  • advantageous
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • alluring
  • amiable
  • amusing
  • arousing
  • attractive
  • beneficial
  • blessed
  • blest
  • blissful
  • bright
  • calming
  • charming
  • cheerful
  • cheering
  • cheery
  • comfortable
  • comforting
  • commoving
  • conducive
  • congenial
  • contenting
  • convenient
  • darling
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • delightful
  • delighting
  • delightsome
  • desirable
  • diverting
  • dreamy
  • dulcet
  • ecstatic
  • elevating
  • enchanting
  • encouraging
  • enjoyable
  • enlivening
  • enrapturing
  • entertaining
  • enviable
  • euphoric
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • expeditious
  • fair
  • fascinating
  • favorable
  • felicific
  • felicitous
  • fine
  • fit
  • flattering
  • fortifying
  • fortunate
  • genial
  • glad
  • gladdening
  • golden
  • good
  • good-natured
  • goodly
  • gracious
  • grateful
  • gratifying
  • halcyon
  • happy
  • heartening
  • heavenly
  • helpful
  • hospitable
  • inspiring
  • inspiriting
  • intoxicating
  • inviting
  • jolly
  • joyous
  • kindly
  • likely
  • lucky
  • luscious
  • nice
  • nirvanic
  • opportune
  • palatable
  • personable
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • pretty
  • probable
  • promiseful
  • propitious
  • providential
  • rapturous
  • reasonable
  • reassuring
  • recreative
  • rejoicing
  • relishable
  • roseate
  • rosy
  • rousing
  • satisfying
  • savory
  • savoury
  • soothing
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • suitable
  • sunny
  • sweet
  • tasty
  • tempting
  • timely
  • transporting
  • uplifting
  • warming
  • welcome
  • well-timed

Antonyms for elating

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • aggravating
  • angering
  • annoying
  • bilious
  • boring
  • cloudy
  • commonplace
  • dark
  • demoralizing
  • deplorable
  • depressing
  • detestable
  • disagreeable
  • discouraging
  • disgusting
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dispiriting
  • displeasing
  • dissatisfying
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • dreary
  • dull
  • enflaming
  • enraging
  • exasperating
  • flat
  • forbidding
  • ghastly
  • gloomy
  • god-awful
  • hateful
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • hellish
  • hopeless
  • horrid
  • hostile
  • implausible
  • inauspicious
  • incensing
  • inflaming
  • infuriating
  • insipid
  • intimidating
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • joyless
  • lachrymose
  • lamentable
  • lugubrious
  • maddening
  • mean
  • miserable
  • mournful
  • nasty
  • obnoxious
  • odious
  • offensive
  • oppressing
  • outraging
  • peeving
  • perturbing
  • pleasureless
  • pointless
  • rainy
  • rankling
  • regrettable
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revulsive
  • riling
  • sad
  • saddening
  • sorrowful
  • stale
  • stormy
  • tedious
  • tragic
  • tragical
  • unhappy
  • unlikely
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpromising
  • unsavory
  • unwelcome
  • upsetting
  • vexing
  • vile
  • wretched
  • yucky
  • yukky

Meanings of elating

  • verb
    1. To make joyful or proud.
    2. To lift up; raise; elevate.

Example Sentences

  • The news of her acceptance into the prestigious program was elating.
  • Watching the final match and seeing their team win was a truly elating experience.
  • The surprise party she threw for her friend was an elating moment for everyone involved.
  • The artist found the process of creating her latest piece to be deeply elating.
  • Receiving positive feedback on his presentation was elating and boosted his confidence.

On this page you'll find 224 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to elating, such as: abhorrent, abominable, advantageous, affable, aggravating, agreeable, alluring.

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unbosoming

  • acknowledging
  • acknowledgment
  • admission
  • admitting
  • advertising
  • affirmation
  • allowance
  • announcing
  • assenting
  • assertion
  • avowal
  • avowing
  • baring
  • betraying
  • blabbing
  • blazing
  • bringing out
  • bringing to light
  • broadcasting
  • communicating
  • conceding
  • concession
  • confessing
  • confiding
  • debunking
  • declaration
  • declaring
  • disclosing
  • disclosure
  • discovering
  • disinterring
  • divulgence
  • divulging
  • enumeration
  • exposing
  • exposure
  • giving away
  • imparting
  • informing
  • leaking
  • making public
  • narration
  • owning
  • owning up
  • placarding
  • posting
  • proclaiming
  • proclamation
  • profession
  • promulgating
  • publication
  • publicizing
  • publishing
  • raking up
  • recitation
  • relating
  • relation
  • revealing
  • revelation
  • sharing
  • showing up
  • smoking out
  • song
  • sounding
  • spilling
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • squealing
  • statement
  • story
  • talking
  • telling
  • uncloaking
  • unclothing
  • uncovering
  • undraping
  • unearthing
  • unmasking
  • unveiling
  • utterance

garbling

  • belying
  • bending
  • bolting
  • bowdlerizing
  • camouflaging
  • censoring
  • clarifying
  • cleaning
  • cleansing
  • clearing
  • coloring
  • complicating
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • cooking
  • decontaminating
  • disguising
  • disinfecting
  • dissembling
  • distilling
  • distorting
  • elutriating
  • equivocating
  • extracting
  • falsifying
  • fibbing
  • filtering
  • fining
  • fudging
  • leaching
  • lying
  • masking
  • misdescribing
  • misinterpreting
  • misrelating
  • misrepresenting
  • misspeaking
  • misstating
  • mistaking
  • mistranslating
  • mystifying
  • obscuring
  • paltering
  • perverting
  • prevaricating
  • processing
  • purging
  • purifying
  • rectifying
  • refining
  • sanitizing
  • screening
  • sieving
  • sifting
  • slanting
  • twisting
  • veiling
  • warping
  • washing
  • whitewashing

ganging

  • affiliating
  • allying
  • associating
  • attaching
  • banding
  • befriending
  • bonding
  • chumming
  • clubbing
  • collaborating
  • colluding
  • companying
  • confederating
  • conjoining
  • connecting
  • consociating
  • consorting
  • cooperating
  • coupling
  • fraternizing
  • friending
  • getting along
  • getting on
  • grouping
  • hobnobbing
  • hooking up
  • interrelating
  • joining
  • knotting
  • leaguing
  • linking
  • messing around
  • mingling
  • mixing
  • rallying
  • relating
  • running
  • siding
  • socializing
  • sorting
  • teaming
  • tieing
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • tying
  • wedding

jelling

  • associating
  • caking
  • clotting
  • clumping
  • coagulating
  • coalescing
  • cohering
  • combining
  • concreting
  • condensing
  • congealing
  • conjoining
  • conjugating
  • connecting
  • coupling
  • crystalizing
  • crystallizing
  • curding
  • curdling
  • fixing
  • forming
  • freezing
  • fusing
  • gelating
  • gelatinizing
  • gelling
  • gumming
  • hardening
  • indurating
  • jellying
  • joining
  • setting
  • solidifying
  • stiffening
  • thickening
  • unifying
  • uniting

falsifying

  • belying
  • bending
  • bowdlerizing
  • camouflaging
  • censoring
  • challenging
  • coloring
  • committing perjury
  • complicating
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • confuting
  • contesting
  • cooking
  • debating
  • debunking
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • disconfirming
  • discrediting
  • discussing
  • disguising
  • disproving
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • distorting
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • doubting
  • equivocating
  • false
  • fibbing
  • forsworn
  • fudging
  • garbling
  • giving the lie to
  • guileful
  • inventing
  • lying
  • masking
  • mendacious
  • misdescribing
  • misinterpreting
  • misleading
  • misrelating
  • misrepresenting
  • misspeaking
  • misstating
  • mistaking
  • mistranslating
  • mistrusting
  • mooting
  • mystifying
  • obscuring
  • overthrowing
  • overturning
  • paltering
  • perfidious
  • perjured
  • perverting
  • prevaricating
  • querying
  • questioning
  • rebutting
  • refuting
  • shifty
  • shooting down
  • slanting
  • talking over
  • treacherous
  • tricky
  • twisting
  • two-faced
  • two-timing
  • unreliable
  • untruthful
  • veiling
  • warping
  • whitewashing
  • wrong

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