Meaning

1 senses
  1. Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful.

    schadenfroh, genüsslich

    радіснийradisnyj, веселийveselyj

More definitions
  • full of high-spirited delight

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Tom looked almost gleeful as he announced the news.

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  2. Don't be so gleeful!

    deSei doch nicht so schadenfroh!

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  3. Andrew was a friendly, gleeful Korean coworker at my software workplace on top of Burnaby Mountain.

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Translations

3 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
joyful:
Deutsch
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joyful:

Origin

From glee + -ful.

From glee + -ful.

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Forms

more gleeful, most gleeful
Comparativemore gleeful Lesson
Superlativemost gleeful Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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