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elation

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Synonyms and Antonyms of elation

a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion

Most people can't imagine the kind of elation that comes with winning a super lottery's grand prize, but they're 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, 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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