7 definitions found for exalted

Exalted EXALT'ED, pp. Raised to a lofty highth; elevated; honored with office or rank; extolled; magnified; refined; dignified; sublime.
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

exalted adj 1: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high- flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose" [syn: exalted, elevated, sublime, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded]

exalted Someone or something that is at an exalted level is at a very high level, especially with regard to rank or importance. (FORMAL) You must decide how to make the best use of your exalted position. = lofty ADJ: usu ADJ n

Exalt Ex*alt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exalted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exalting.] [L. exaltare; ex out (intens.) + altare to make high, altus high: cf.F. exalter. See Altitude.] 1. To raise high; to elevate; to lift up. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. --Is. xiv. 13. Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes --Pope. 2. To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency. Righteousness exalteth a nation. --Prov. xiv. 34. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. --Luke xiv. 11. 3. To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify. ``Exalt ye the Lord.'' --Ps. xcix. 5. In his own grace he doth exalt himself. --Shak. 4. To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate. They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted. --Dryden. 5. To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument. --Is. xxxvii. 23. Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice. --Prior. 6. (Alchem.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies. With chemic art exalts the mineral powers. --Pope.

Exalted Ex*alt"ed, a. Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime. Wiser far than Solomon, Of more exalted mind. --Milton. Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny. --Ames. -- Ex*alt"ed*ly, adv. -- Ex*alt"ed*ness, n. ``The exaltedness of some minds.'' --T. Gray.

exalted ɪɡˈzɔ:ltɪd adj. 1 elevated, lofty, high, eminent, notable, noted, prominent, famous, famed, celebrated, distinguished, dignified, honoured, prestigious, glorified, sublime, grand: During his later life he enjoyed an exalted reputation. 2 elevated, noble, lofty, superior, uplifting, heightened, high-flown; exaggerated, pretentious, overblown, inflated: His writing is euphuistic, that is, flowery or exalted. She has an exalted notion of her importance. 3 elated, excited, exultant, ecstatic, jubilant, overjoyed, joyful, rapturous, transported, blissful, happy, joyous, in seventh heaven, uplifted, Colloq on cloud nine, Brit over the moon: They were in too exalted a mood to be interested in such mundane matters.

232 Moby Thesaurus words for "exalted": Olympian, aerial, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, analysis, apotheosized, aristocratic, ascending, aspiring, assay, astral, audit, august, awesome, beaming, beatified, big, bighearted, blissful, blithe, blithesome, breakdown, bright, bright and sunny, bursting with happiness, canonized, canvass, carried away, catechization, celebrated, checkup, cheerful, cheery, chivalrous, colossal, deified, diagnosis, dignified, dissection, distinguished, dominating, ducal, ecstatic, elate, elated, elevated, eminent, enchanted, ennobled, enraptured, enravished, enshrined, enthroned, entranced, erect, ethereal, eupeptic, euphoric, exaggerated, examination, excellent, excited, exhilarated, exultant, famed, famous, first, flushed, foremost, freaked out, generous, genial, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, glad, gladsome, glorified, glorious, glowing, godlike, grand, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, happy, haughty, heightened, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty, high-flown, high-minded, high-pitched, high-ranking, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, highest, highest-ranking, honored, hopeful, idealistic, illustrious, immortal, immortalized, imparadised, in ecstasies, in good spirits, in heaven, in high spirits, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, inflated, inquiry, inspection, irrepressible, joyful, joyous, jubilant, kinglike, kingly, knightly, ladylike, largehearted, lauded, laughing, leading, liberal, lifted, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, majestic, mighty, monumental, mounting, noble, noble-minded, notable, noted, number one, of gentle blood, of good cheer, of rank, on cloud nine, on stilts, openhanded, optimistic, outstanding, outtopping, overblown, overjoyed, overjoyful, overlooking, overtopping, patrician, perlustration, pleasant, possessed, prestigious, pretentious, princelike, princely, prominent, queenlike, queenly, questioning, quite the lady, quizzing, radiant, raised, rampant, rapt, raptured, rapturous, ravished, renowned, review, rhapsodic, riant, rosy, sainted, sanctified, sanguine, sanguineous, scan, scrutiny, sent, shrined, sifting, smiling, soaring, sparkling, spiring, steep, stilted, sublime, sunny, superb, supereminent, superior, superlative, supernal, survey, testing, throned, titled, top-drawer, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transported, upcast, upflung, uplifted, uplifting, upraised, upreared, upright, upthrown, view, winnowing, winsome