E*la"tive (?), a. (Gram.) Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.

• (grammar) In Semitic languages, the “adjective of superiority.” In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.”
       The elative of (كبير) (kabí:r, "big") is (أكبر) ('ákbar, “bigger/biggest”, “greater/greatest”).
  
• (grammar) In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases. The elative case is a noun case that expresses “out of,” as in Finnish talosta, Hungarian házból (“out of the house”). Its opposite is the illative case (“into”).