elevated

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of elevatesimple past and past participle of elevate

adjective

1. 1

   Raised, usually above ground level.

2. 2

   Increased, particularly above a normal level.

   the elevated language of poetry

   The patient presented with elevated blood pressure.

3. 3

   Of a higher rank or status.

4. 4

   Running with administrator rights.

   Install all the required tools from an elevated console.

5. 5

   archaicIntoxicated; drunk.

   ‘I hope,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.’ ‘Oh dear, no,’ replied Ben Allen. ‘Except when he’s elevated, Bob’s the quietest creature breathing.’

   A man whom Tom knew was returning one evening from a fair, a little elevated of course, when he met a berrin (i. e. funeral), which he joined, as is the custom; but, to his surprise, there was no one there that he knew except one man, and he had been dead for some years.

6. 6

   Of a higher register or style.

noun

1. 1

   An elevated railway.

   the Washington Street Elevated

   Mr. Nunheim's home was on the fourth floor of a dark, damp, and smelly building made noisy by the Sixth Avenue elevated.

   While the New York, Fordham, and Bronx Railway never built any elevateds, its franchise rights were valuable.

Forms

plural

elevateds

comparative

more elevated

superlative

most elevated