gleeful

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

happy because of sth good you have done or sth bad that has happened to sb else: a gleeful laugh gleefully adverb

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

gleefulEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus gleefulEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

Nearby in the dictionary

glassful glasshouse glassware glassy Glaswegian glaucoma glaze glazed glazier gleam glean

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Where does this definition of gleeful come from?

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Is gleeful a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, gleeful is tagged as adjective.

Does gleeful appear elsewhere on Lughet?

Yes — gleeful appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.

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