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elation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of elation

a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion

most people canʼt imagine the kind of elation that comes with winning a super lotteryʼs grand prize, but theyʼre dying to find out

Synonyms of elation

cloud nine, ecstasy, elatedness, euphoria, exhilaration, heaven, high, intoxication, paradise, rapture, rhapsody, seventh heaven, swoon, transport

Words Related to elation

blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, delight, enchantment, felicity, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, pleasure

reverie, trance

fervor, frenzy, madness, passion

cheer, cheerfulness, exuberance, gaiety (also gayety), glee, gleefulness, jubilance, jubilation, lightheartedness

Near Antonyms of elation

misery, sadness, unhappiness, woe, wretchedness

blues, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, heartsickness, melancholy, mopes

Antonyms of elation

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