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Elating

Definition: Elating

Elating

Adjective

1. Making lively and joyful.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Elating

Synonym: exhilarating (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Elating

Language Translations for "elating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

ermutigend (countenancing, emboldening, encouraging, encouragingly, heartening). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elatingay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

entuziasmant (enthusing, soul-lifting, thrilling). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Elating

Derivations

Words ending with "elating": chelating, corelating, correlating, delating, gelating, intercorrelating, interrelating, misrelating, regelating, relating. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Elating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alattin, Alatyn, elastan, elatine, Elazig, evating, fellating, lating, leeting, pelleting. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Elating"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "elating" (pronounced ulā"ting)
6u l ā" t i ngrelating.
5-l ā" t i ngdeflating, inflating, plating, translating.
4-ā" t i ngabating, annotating, awaiting, baiting, berating, crating, creating, dating, debating, equating, grating, hating, innovating, mating, misstating, negating, rating, reinstating, restating, sedating, skating, stating, updating, waiting, weighting.
3-t i ngabbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, babysitting, backbiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, daunting, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, wanting, wasting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Elating

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: atingle, gelatin, genital.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-t"

-1 letter: aiglet, eating, entail, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, ingate, ligate, linage, tangle, tenail, tineal, tingle.

-2 letters: agent, agile, aglet, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, elain, elint, entia, giant, glean, glint, ingle, inlet, laten, leant, legit, liane, liang, ligan, linga, telia, tenia, tinea, tinge.

-3 letters: agin, alit, anil, ante, anti, egal, elan, etna, gaen, gain, gait, gale, gane, gate, gelt, gent, geta, gien, gilt, glen, glia, gnat, ilea, lain, lane, lang, late, lati, lean, lent, lien, line, ling, lint, lite, nail, neat, nite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tang, teal, tela, tile, tine, ting.

-4 letters: age, ail, ain, ait, ale, alt, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eng, eta, gae, gal, gan, gat, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, lag, lat, lea, leg, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, nae, nag, net, nil, nit, tae, tag, tan, tea, teg, tel, ten, tie, til, tin.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, al, an, at, el, en, et, in, it, la, li, na, ne, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-t"
 

+1 letter: agential, alerting, alginate, altering, atheling, bleating, cleating, delating, exalting, galenite, gantline, gelatine, gelating, gelatins, gelation, genitals, gnatlike, integral, latening, legatine, legating, legation, ligament, metaling, pleating, relating, stealing, tangible, tanglier, teazling, tegminal, triangle, valeting.

 

+2 letters: alginates, alignment, allegiant, analgetic, anglesite, antiglare, athelings, chelating, cingulate, clientage, deflating, desalting, detailing, earthling, eglantine, elevating, emulating, entailing, faltering, fellating, gainliest, galantine, galenites, galleting, gangliest, gantlines, gelatines, gelations, genetical, geniality, genitalia, genitalic, genitally, genitival, giantlike, glutamine, gnarliest, granulite, haltering, ignitable, inelegant, integrals, jangliest, lamenting, lathering, legations, levanting, ligaments, metalling, paltering, reflating, replating, reslating, retailing, slangiest, stealings, tableting, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teaseling, teasingly, teazeling, trameling, traveling, treadling, triangles, vigilante.

 

+3 letters: alienating, alightment, alignments, alimenting, allegation, analgetics, anglesites, antilogies, antiplague, blanketing, blathering, blattering, clattering, clientages, congenital, corelating, datelining, defaulting, delegating, delegation, depilating, desolating, earthlings, eglantines, elongating, elongation, eluviating, embattling, entangling, escalating, ethylating, etiolating, evaluating, evangelist, exactingly, explanting, flattening, flattering, gadolinite, galantines, galivanted, gantleting, gelatinize, gelatinous, generalist, generality, geniculate, glauconite, gleization, glutamines, granulites, hatcheling, intaglioed, intangible, integrable, integrally, invigilate, lacerating, lactogenic, lateraling, laterizing, laureating, leafleting, leathering, levigating, levigation, levitating, liberating, lightplane, martingale, metalising, metalizing, multirange, negational, negatively, negotiable, nongenital, nucleating, outleaping, peculating, plastering, plateauing, pregenital, realtering, refloating, regelating, regimental, regulating, regulation, relegating, relegation, relocating, replanting, resaluting, retackling, retailings, signalment, slathering, spangliest, starveling, tabletting, tangential, tasselling, teaselling, teazelling, theologian, toenailing, tolerating, trailering, tramelling, trammeling, travelling, trigeminal, ulcerating, urogenital, vigilantes.

 

+4 letters: acceptingly, acetylating, affectingly, agglutinate, alightments, allegations, alleviating, alloantigen, alphabeting, altercating, alternating, amblygonite, anthologies, anthologize, antiplagues, arrestingly, banteringly, benignantly, candlelight, cartelising, cartelizing, celebrating, centrifugal, congelation, correlating, deadlifting, decollating, defalcating, defoliating, delegations, delineating, detasseling, devaluating, disentangle, dovetailing, egalitarian, ejaculating, elaborating, eliminating, elongations, elucidating, elutriating, enigmatical, enthralling, enucleating, evangelists, everlasting, exculpating, exfoliating, explicating, facelifting, falteringly, farthingale, gadolinites, gallantries, gallivanted, gauntleting, geanticline, gelatinized, gelatinizes, genealogist, generalists, genetically, genialities, geniculated, genitivally, genotypical, gestational, gesticulant, ghastliness, glauconites, gleizations, glutaminase, glutathione, glycerinate, goaltending, granitelike, hatchelling, inelegantly, intangibles, integrality, interlacing, interlaying, invigilated, invigilates, langbeinite, langoustine, lastingness, lateralling, leafletting, legislating, legislation, levigations, libertinage, ligamentous, lightplanes, linecasting, maledicting, malignities, maltreating, martingales, meliorating, metallizing, methylating, misaltering, misrelating, multiagency, nightingale, nightwalker, nonintegral, outbleating, outlearning, oversalting, overtalking, palletising, palletizing, pedestaling, percolating, plaistering, plantigrade, plasterings, platemaking, praelecting, preplanting, realignment, reallotting, regimentals, regionalist, regulations, reinflating, relegations, reluctating, replicating, retailoring, retaliating, revaluating, signalments, speculating, splattering, stalemating, starvelings, steelmaking, talebearing, teetotaling, telecasting, theologians, trailerings, trammelling, triangulate, trigeminals, unfaltering, ungainliest, ventilating.

 

+5 letters: accelerating, adulterating, agglutinable, agglutinated, agglutinates, agglutinogen, alliterating, alloantigens, almightiness, amblygonites, ameliorating, angelologist, angularities, anthologized, anthologizer, anthologizes, antireligion, appetizingly, astringently, bestializing, billingsgate, candlelights, cartwheeling, caterwauling, centralising, centralizing, centrifugals, cladogenetic, clatteringly, congelations, congeniality, congenitally, conglutinate, debilitating, decelerating, deescalating, deflagrating, deflagration, deglaciation, delaminating, deliberating, demodulating, depopulating, deregulating, deregulation, desalinating, desolatingly, detasselling, devitalizing, disentailing, disentangled, disentangles, earsplitting, edulcorating, egalitarians, elucubrating, emasculating, enchantingly, entreatingly, establishing, eternalizing, ethnological, evangelistic, everlastings, exhilarating, farthingales, felicitating, flagellating, flagellation, flatteringly, forestalling, ganglionated, geanticlines, gelatinizing, gelatinously, genealogists, generalities, generational, geobotanical, geotechnical, glutaminases, glutathiones, glycerinated, glycerinates, goaltendings, halogenating, halogenation, hearteningly, hesitatingly, interglacial, interlapping, interlarding, interleaving, interplaying, intertillage, intervillage, langbeinites, langoustines, languishment, laryngitides, lateralizing, legalization, legislations, legitimating, legitimation, libertinages, linecastings, literalizing, livetrapping, magnetically, magnetizable, magniloquent, metabolizing, metalworking, mineralogist, misalignment, multimegaton, nauseatingly, nematologies, nematologist, neutralising, neutralizing, nightingales, nightwalkers, nonalignment, obliterating, oceanologist, organoleptic, overplanting, palingenetic, pedestalling, plantigrades, platemakings, preallotting, pregnability, premalignant, realignments, reallocating, reescalating, reevaluating, regionalists, reimplanting, reinstalling, relativizing, renegotiable, replastering, repopulating, reregulating, reregulation, reticulating, revalidating, revictualing, revitalising, revitalizing, scatteringly, shatteringly, slaughtering, staggeringly, steamrolling, steelmakings, stonewalling, streamlining, stringhalted, tabernacling, talebearings, tangentially, tangibleness, teetotalling, telegramming, telegraphing, tessellating, thermalizing, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating, unapologetic, unflattering, unnegotiable, urinogenital, vegetational, vesiculating, waterfowling, waterlogging.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Elating


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6C 61 74 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    .-..    .-    -    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006C 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39786786758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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