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Definition: GLEESOME |
GLEESOMEAdjective1. Merry; joyous; gleeful. |
Date "GLEESOME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1836. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "GLEESOME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy), shend e verë (gleeful), plot gaz (cheerful, gleeful). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرح (cheer, cheerful, delight, gaiety, gladden, gladness, glee, gloat, happy, joy, joyful, liven up, rejoicing, thaw, tickle), طرب (glee, gleeful, jag, mirth, rapt, rapture). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome). (various references) | |
Czech | radostný (blithe, cheerful, cheery, exhilarating, festive, glad, gladsome, gleeful, good, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, rorty). (various references) | |
French | jubilation (glee), joie (gladness), allégresse (gladness, glee). (various references) | |
Greek | χαροπόσ (airy, gleeful, jocund, jolly, joyous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמח (cheerful, delighted, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased), צוהל (exuberant, exultant, gleeful, hilarious, joyful, jubilant, rollicking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vidám (gay, playful, cheerful, chirpy, comic, felicitous, gleeful, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, joyful, joyous, merry, rollicking), jókedvû (chirpy, debonair, gay, gleeful, jocund, joyful, light hearted, merry, slap happy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eesomeglay.(various references) | |
Russian | радостный (gleeful, mirthful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | radostan (blithe, glad, gladdening, gladsome, hilarious, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Swedish | glad (glad, happy, cheerful, delighted, gay, jocund, jolly, merry, pleased), munter (blithe, cheerful, jocose, jocund, merry, sprightly). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui sướng (gleeful, happy, joyous, jubilant), hân hoan (cheery, elate, elated, exultant, gleeful, joyful, triumphant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"GLEESOME" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aglycone, Glechoma, Leeholme. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "GLEESOME" (pronounced 'Glee"some'): Awesome, Awsome, Blithesome, Brightsome, Darksome, fulsome, Fusome, Gainsome, Galsome, Gamesome, Gaysome, Gladsome, handsome, irksome, Liefsome, Lifesome, lightsome, lithesome, loathsome, lonesome, Longsome, lovesome, Mirksome, Noisome, Pithsome, Playsome, Roomsome, tiresome, toilsome, toothsome, Twigsome, Ugsome, Unhandsome, Welsome, Wholesome, Wieldsome, Willsome, Winsome, Wlatsome, Woesome, Youthsome. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-l-m-o-s" | |
-2 letters: gelees, golems, melees. | |
-3 letters: geese, gelee, glees, gloms, golem, leges, loges, melee, moles, ogees, ogles. | |
-4 letters: eels, egos, elms, else, emes, gees, gels, gems, glee, glom, goes, lees, legs, loge, logs, lose, megs, mels, mogs, mole, mols, ogee, ogle, oles, seel, seem, sego, seme, sloe, slog, smog, sole, some. | |
-5 letters: eel, ego, elm, els. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-l-m-o-s" | |
+4 letters: semeiologies. | |
+5 letters: fellmongeries, melanogeneses, melanogenesis, meteorologies. | |
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