Don't be so gleeful!
Source: tatoeba (2145230)
Gleeful
//ˈɡliːfəl//
Synonyms for "gleeful" (62 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (31)
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Synonyms
5 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 10 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- şən adj (joyful)
Bulgarian
3 entries- весел adj (joyful)
- ликуващ adj (joyful)
- радостен adj (joyful)
Finnish
1 entries- riemuitseva adj (joyful)
German
2 entries- genüsslich adj (joyful)
- schadenfroh adj (joyful)
Hungarian
1 entries- vidám adj (joyful)
Māori
2 entries- manahau adj (joyful)
- manamanahau adj (joyful)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قریر adj (joyful)
Spanish
1 entries- beato adj (joyful)
Swedish
2 entries- munter adj (joyful)
- upprymd adj (joyful)
Ukrainian
2 entries- веселий adj (joyful)
- радісний adj (joyful)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Andrew was a friendly, gleeful Korean coworker at my software workplace on top of Burnaby Mountain.
Source: tatoeba (10585795)
Tom looked almost gleeful as he announced the news.
Source: tatoeba (11576510)
During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.
Source: wiktionary
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