elevate

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
2. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
3. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
4. (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
5. (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
6. (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
7. (transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
8. (dated, transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
9. (obsolete, transitive) To lift the spirits of (someone)
10. (colloquial, dated, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
11. (Latinism, obsolete) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

Adj

Elevated, raised aloft.

Opposite of

drop, lower, demote, decrease, diminish, reduce, depress, sadden

Synonyms

raise

lift

exalt

promote

lift up

hoist

advance

uplift

raise up

upgrade

heave

rear

enhance

lever

ennoble

heighten

make better

pick up

bring up

boost

upheave

improve

kick upstairs

get up

turn up

up

🆙

refine

keep

glorify

augment

increase

bump up

breed

erect

farm

sublimate

rise

hold up

transfigure

trice

upraise

wake up

level up

send up

get a promotion

raise up the top of a castle

add to

raise completely up

agitate

ameliorate

Translations

elevar

élever

levantar

elevar

alzare

elevare

lever

alzar

elevar

erheben

soulever

augmenter

verheffen

heben

alçar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛləveɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English elevaten (“to raise up, erect; to elate, inflate (e.g. with pride); (alchemy) to vaporize; (of a bone, excressence, blood vessel) to protrude”), from elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), further from Latin ēlevātus, the perfect passive participle of ēlevō (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) + levō (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see levity and lever.