Antonyms of verb elate

1 sense of elate

Sense 1
elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate -- (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits")
       Antonym of depress (Sense 1)
      => depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise -- (lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb elate

1 sense of elate

Sense 1
elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate -- (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits")
       => stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir -- (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country")

Antonyms of adj elated

2 senses of elated

Sense 1
elated (vs. dejected) -- (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited")

dejected (vs. elated) -- (affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful")
        => amort -- (utterly cast down)
        => chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated -- (brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually")
        => gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down (predicate), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited -- (filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted")
        => glum -- (moody and melancholic)
        => lonely, lonesome -- (marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar")

Sense 2
elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant -- (full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart")

INDIRECT (VIA joyous) -> joyless -- (not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings")

Similarity of adj elated

2 senses of elated

Sense 1
elated (vs. dejected) -- (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited")
       => exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant -- (joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout")
       => gladdened, exhilarated -- (made joyful; "the sun and the wind on his back made him feel exhilarated--happy to be alive")
       => high, in high spirits -- (happy and excited and energetic)
       => sublime -- (lifted up or set high; "their hearts were jocund and sublime"- Milton)
       => uplifted -- (exalted emotionally especially with pride)
          Also See-> euphoric#1; happy#1; joyous#1

Sense 2
elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant -- (full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart")
       => joyous (vs. joyless) -- (full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter")