✅ Ecstatic means that someone is full of joy (She was ecstatic when she found out she had won the grand prize).

✅ Elated means that someone feels particularly happy or proud (I was elated when my poem was published in a magazine).

✅ Both of these words suggest that someone is feeling intense or overwhelming happiness.

✅ Ecstatic emphasizes a happiness so great that it’s overpowering or even hysterical (He was so ecstatic that he had to calm down with an herbal tea).

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✅ Okay means that something is tolerable, neither especially good nor especially bad (The new restaurant is okay).

✅ Middling means that something is mediocre, not good or bad but also uninteresting or uninspiring (The essay was middling).

✅ Both of these terms describe things that are not really good or bad but somewhere in the middle.

✅ Okay and middling can also both mean that you’re in decent health (I’m feeling okay; I’m middling, but at least I’m on the mend).

✅ Must refers to something that is necessary (A good knowledge of anatomy is a must if you want to draw figures).

✅ Requisite refers to something that is necessary for a particular purpose or profession (I fulfilled the requisites of education and training).

✅ Both of these words refer to necessary and indispensable things.

✅ Must is more of an informal slang term. Requisite is more formal. Often, musts are less necessary than requisites.