verb

make (someone) ecstatically happy.

while the wealth of wildlife elated me, it unnerved me as well

thrilled,exhilarated,happy,delighted,overjoyed,joyous,gleeful,excited,animated,jubilant,beside oneself with happiness,exultant,ecstatic,euphoric,rapturous,in raptures,enraptured,rapt,walking on air,on cloud nine/seven,in seventh heaven,jumping for joy,in transports of delight,transported,carried away,in a frenzy of delight,delirious (with happiness),hysterical,wild with excitement,frenzied,blissed out,over the moon,on a high,wigged out,turnt,corybantic

adjective

in high spirits; exultant or proud.

their elate and animated faces