elated
v.feeling or showing great happiness and excitement. You use this when you are very pleased about something good that just happened.
v.feeling or showing great happiness and excitement. Often used to describe a state of intense joy following a specific achievement or event.
“She was elated when she heard she got the job.”
“The team was elated after winning the championship, celebrating with a parade through the city.”
“The researchers were elated to discover that their hypothesis was correct, as it had taken years of meticulous data collection to reach such a conclusion.”
“The high-school kids are wafting groggily back to earth, buffeted and elated after a wild night around town.”
Latin elatus (“raised”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.