What's the difference between cheerful and elated?

Cheerful


Definition:

  • (a.) Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (2) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
  • (3) At best I would like to think about this as Project Cheer; we’re going to be upbeat about this.
  • (4) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
  • (5) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
  • (6) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (7) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
  • (8) There was indeed a crowd of “Women for Trump” cheering at the event.
  • (9) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
  • (10) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
  • (11) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
  • (12) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
  • (13) From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
  • (14) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
  • (15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
  • (16) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
  • (17) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
  • (18) Updated at 4.23pm BST 3.19pm BST 54 mins "Afternoon Ian," cheers Simon McMahon.
  • (19) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
  • (20) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.

Elated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Elate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Temporary mood states (depression, elation, neutral) were produced by means of Velten's auto-suggestion technique.
  • (2) When I left the room, along with elation, there was relief.
  • (3) Using an experimental procedure which minimised covert experimenter bias, subjects performed under both elation and depression mood inductions in one of four conditions: music present or absent by mood change instructions present or absent, using a crossover design.
  • (4) When prompted with the question, “That’s not a no though?”, Prince replied, “No.” Later that night, Prince turned up at the one-time roller disco in north London to play a set to a few dozen elated journalists and, towards the end of the show, a swarm of even more elated fans.
  • (5) Moreover ELAT-CSG is significantly more sensitive than ELAT-LAV (P = 0.03).
  • (6) 2 ml of fetal RBC in a 1,600-ml red cell mass can be quantified using the modified ELAT.
  • (7) I feel pleased to have crossed out 10 things today, then realise I’ve added 15 items to my list so my elation is shortlived!
  • (8) Yesterday afternoon, Straw described the mood among Ed Miliband's team – who had by now got used to being front- runners – as "elated" – and those among David's as "nervous".
  • (9) Following the initial immersion, subjects participated in the Velten mood induction procedure by reading either depressive, neutral or elative statements.
  • (10) Elated and depressed subjects performed best under positive and negative feedback, respectively.
  • (11) Nicotine fuses with nicotinic receptors, which trigger the release of several neurotransmitters – including serotonin and dopamine – which are both associated with positive side-effects, including elation and excitability.
  • (12) The effect of negative, positive, or neutral feedback on a rotary pursuit task as a function of the subject's depressed or elated mood was ascertained.
  • (13) I wrote about the wide-eyed optimism that rookie comedians come north with; the joy of spending time necking lager in the same drinking holes as your heroes; the elation of hearing the first laugh of the summer; the sadness of leaving your venue for the last time; the friends you make; the haunts you start to call your own; the feeling of finding your place in this mystical world; and the certainty that this is where you must be in August – that you must not go on a nice holiday or find paid work or attend a wedding or do up your chaotic flat instead.
  • (14) The 48-hour postinjection titer was compared with the size of bleed as measured by Du testing and the enzyme-linked antiglobulin test (ELAT).
  • (15) "You know I sort of feel elated, exhausted and thrilled.
  • (16) Although 51Cr is the accepted method for red cell survival, the ELAT method can be used to estimate transfused red cell survival.
  • (17) Self-rated anxiety was not found to be associated with the number of people present, whereas self-rated elation was positively correlated with the presence of others.
  • (18) For example, alcohol increased elation and vigor scores in the consistent choosers of alcohol, whereas it decreased scores on these measures in the consistent placebo choosers.
  • (19) Of the various psychiatric symptoms elation was significantly correlated with the presence of widespread MRI abnormalities, while flattening of affect, delusions and thought disorder correlated with the degree of pathology in the temporo-parietal region.
  • (20) Prior to treatment, patients rated hyperactive-elated, angry, and agitated had more motor activity, and patients rated anergic and retarded had less motor activity.