1a : raised especially above the ground or other surface an elevated highway. b : increased especially abnormally (as in degree or amount) elevated blood pressure. 2a : being morally or intellectually on a high plane : refined elevated conversation.
What does it mean for a person to be elevated?
(ɛlɪveɪtɪd ) adjective [usu ADJ n] A person, job, or role that is elevated is very important or of very high rank. His career has blossomed and that has given him a certain elevated status.
How do you use the word elevated?
The doctor said I was to keep my leg elevated.
- Language has elevated humans above the other animals.
- The earthquake highlighted the vulnerability of elevated highways.
- Within months she was elevated to ministerial rank.
- The platform was elevated by means of hydraulic legs.
- He was elevated to the post of prime minister.
