Meaning

1 senses
  1. An act or instance of gloating.

    hämische Freude, Schadenfreude, Triumph

    злора́дствоzlorádstvo

More definitions
  • malicious satisfaction

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

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
an act or instance of gloating:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an act or instance of gloating:

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

plural: gloats

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

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