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gleeful

[ glee-fuhl ]

adjective

  1. full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.


gleeful

/ ˈɡːʊ /

adjective

  1. full of glee; merry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڳܱ, adverb
  • ˈڳܱԱ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ·ڳܱ· adverb
  • ·ڳܱ·Ա noun
  • ܲ··ڳܱ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gleeful1

First recorded in 1580–90; glee 1 + -ful
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Certainly, the band's gleeful celebration of drug culture puts them at odds with the old guard of the movement - but the band are serious about their desire for a unified Ireland.

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It increasingly seems like our world is dominated by two types of leaders: those guided by gleeful, vindictive spite, and those guided by wherever the wind happens to be blowing that day.

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Reviewer David Kipen celebrated Wallace’s “stupendously high-toned vocabulary and gleeful low-comedy diction, coupled with a sense of syntax so elongated that he can seem to go for days without surfacing.”

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We are in an age of gleeful disruption, particularly as we witness Silicon Valley strategies and the tearing down of the federal government.

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President Donald Trump has moved beyond "American carnage," leaving the nihilistic outlook of his first term behind in favor of gleeful bullying and childish name-calling.

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