gleeful

/'gli:ful/ Cách viết khác : (gleesome) /'gli:səm/

Thân thiện

A child gives a gleeful laugh while opening a birthday present.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Full of high-spirited delight; exultantly joyful: Expressing or feeling great, often unrestrained, happiness and triumph.

Usage

• The adjective gleeful describes a person's mood or expression when they are extremely and openly happy, often with a sense of triumph or mischievous pleasure. It is stronger than simply "happy" and often implies a specific reason for the joy.
• It is typically used before a noun (attributive) or after a linking verb (predicative).

Examples

• The children were gleeful when school was canceled due to snow.
• She gave a gleeful laugh upon hearing the surprising news.
• His gleeful expression showed he had won the bet.

Advanced Usage

• "with gleeful abandon": Acting in a very joyful and carefree manner.
  • The puppy ran through the mud with gleeful abandon.
• Often used to describe a reaction to someone else's misfortune, implying a lack of sympathy (schadenfreude).
  • He couldn't hide his gleeful smile when his rival made a mistake.

Variants and Related Words

• Glee (n): The feeling of great delight, often the cause of being gleeful.
  • The team celebrated their victory with great glee.
• Gleefully (adv): In a gleeful manner.
  • She gleefully accepted the award.

Synonyms

• Joyful: Feeling or expressing great happiness.
• Jubilant: Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.
• Exultant: Triumphantly happy.
• Elated: In high spirits; ecstatically happy.

Antonyms

• Sad: Feeling or showing sorrow.
• Miserable: Wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.
• Gloomy: Dark or poorly lit; feeling distressed or pessimistic.

Idioms and Phrases

• "gleeful anticipation": Looking forward to something with great and excited joy.
  • The fans waited with gleeful anticipation for the concert to begin.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. full of high-spirited delight
   • a joyful heart

Từ đồng nghĩa

• elated
• joyful
• jubilant