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 elating

1 sense of elating

Sense 1
elating, exhilarating -- (making lively and joyful)

INDIRECT (VIA exciting) -> unexciting -- (not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life")

Similarity of adj elating

1 sense of elating

Sense 1
elating, exhilarating -- (making lively and joyful)
       => exciting (vs. unexciting) -- (creating or arousing excitement; "an exciting account of her trip")