Meaning

2 senses
  1. To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.

    You did well to win the game, but there's no need to gloat about it.

    hämisch freuen, sich weiden, sich diebisch freuen

    злорадствоватьzloradstvovatʹ

  2. To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.

    sich brüsten, großtun, angeben

More definitions
  • dwell on with satisfaction
  • gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy

Examples

6 sentences
  1. It's a bit too early to gloat.

    ruЕщё слишком рано злорадствовать. — odexed

  2. Let's not gloat.

    ruДавайте не будем радоваться. — shanghainese

  3. I’m trying not to gloat too much.

    ruЯ стараюсь не слишком злорадствовать. — marafon

  4. I don’t gloat when you lose — as long as you play.

  5. The enemies will gloat when we fall, you fool!

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction:
to triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel:

Origin

From Middle English *gloten, glouten, from Old Norse glotta (“to grin, smile scornfully”)

From Middle English *gloten, glouten, from Old Norse glotta (“to grin, smile scornfully”) or Old English *glotian, both from Proto-Germanic *glutōną (“to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shine”), related to dialectal Swedish glotta, glutta (“to peep”), Middle High German glutzen, glotzen (“to stare”), Modern German glotzen (“to gawk, goggle”).

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Forms

gloats, gloating, gloated, gloated
Base formgloat · to gloat
3rd person singulargloats
Present participlegloating
Past simplegloated
Past participlegloated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygloat
he, she, itgloats

Past simpleLesson

all personsgloated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gloated
he, she, ithas gloated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gloat

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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