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Definition: Gleeful |
GleefulAdjective1. Full of high-spirited delight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gleeful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Synonyms: GleefulSynonyms: elated (adj), joyful (adj), jubilant (adj). (additional 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. | |
Crosswords: Gleeful |
| English words defined with "gleeful": gleefully, Gleesome ♦ joyfully, joyously ♦ Lively stones. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Why Smith left home George H. Broadhurst's gleeful plenitude : by the author of What happened to Jones. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Gleeful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.11% of the time. "Gleeful" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.11% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.89% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "gleeful": filthy-gleeful. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gleeful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy), shend e verë (gleesome), plot gaz (cheerful, gleesome), i gëzueshëm (cheerful, cheery, festal, festive, frolic, frolicsome, hilarious, joyful, mirthful), i gëzuar (airy, blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, coltish, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, happy, joyful, joyous, larky, lightsome, merry, mirthful, oared, sprightly). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), طروب (jaunty), طرب (glee, gleesome, jag, mirth, rapt, rapture), جذلان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | радостен (cheerful, gay, glad, happy, jocund, joyful, joyous, lightsome, lusty, merry, mirthful), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleesome, 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), ликуващ (elated, exultant, jubilant). (various references) | |
Chinese | 高兴 (Glad). (various references) | |
Czech | veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious), radostný (blithe, cheerful, cheery, exhilarating, festive, glad, gladsome, gleesome, good, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, rorty), škodolibý (spiteful). (various references) | |
French | radieux, jubilant, joyeux (glad), heureux (glad). (various references) | |
German | fröhlich (blithe, blithesome, bright, brightly, cheerful, cheerfully, cheerily, festive, gay, gladly, gladsome, happily, happy, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, jovially, joyous, lighthearted, liltingly, merrily, merry, mirthful, mirthfully, upbeat). (various references) | |
Greek | χαροπόσ (airy, gleesome, jocund, jolly, joyous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמח (cheerful, delighted, gay, glad, gleesome, happy, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased), צו"ל (exuberant, exultant, gleesome, hilarious, joyful, jubilant, rollicking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vidám (amused, blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dengan riang gembira. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 嬉々たる (joyful), 嬉嬉たる (joyful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ききたる (joyful). (various references) | |
Manx | lane reaid, lane ghennalys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eefulglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | satisfeito (content, contented, delighted, full, gay, glad, happy, pleased, replete, satisfied), contente (canty, content, contented, glad, gladsome, happy, jolly, joyful, mirthful, pleased, satisfied, triumphant), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) | |
Romanian | voios (cheerful, cheerfully, exhilarated, festival, genial, genially, glad, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, mellow, merrily, merry, mirthful, saucy), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton). (various references) | |
Russian | радостный (glad, gladsome, gleesome, heartwarming, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful, roseate), веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly), ликующий (cock-a-hoop, exultant, jubilant, triumphant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razdragan (full of beans, mirthful). (various references) | |
Spanish | regocijado (elate, exhilarated, jolly, merry), jubiloso (cock-a-hoop, exultant, joyful, joyous, jubilant). (various references) | |
Swedish | glad (bonny, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, Chirk, chirpy, debonair, delighted, gay, glad, gladsome, gleesome, happy, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased), munter (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, frolic, frolicsome, gay, gleesome, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful, sprightly). (various references) | |
Thai | ร่าเริง ((as) happy as a lark, exuberant, frolicsome, jaunty, jolly, lively, spunk up). (various references) | |
Turkish | sinsice gülen, neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), komşusuna gülen, şen (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, convivial, eupeptic, frolicsome, gay, jaunty, jocund, jolly, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, sportive). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | радісний (cheery, cock-a-hoop, elate, elated, festal, glad, heartwarming, joyful, joyous, jubilant, roseate, rosy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui sướng (gleesome, happy, joyous, jubilant), hân hoan (cheery, elate, elated, exultant, gleesome, joyful, triumphant). (various references) | |
Welsh | afieithus (mirthful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gleeful": gleefully, gleefulness, gleefulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Gleeful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galleyful, gleef, gleefus, Lefuel, legful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gleeful" (pronounced glē"ful) |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-l-l-u" | |
-2 letters: fugle. | |
-3 letters: feel, fell, flee, flue, fuel, full, glee, glue, gulf, gull, luge. | |
-4 letters: eel, elf, ell, fee, feu, flu, fug, gee, gel, gul, lee, leg, leu, lug. | |
-5 letters: ef, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-g-l-l-u" | |
+2 letters: gleefully. | |
+3 letters: neglectful, refuelling, vengefully. | |
+4 letters: fluegelhorn, gleefulness, gracefuller, gratefuller, regretfully, unfeelingly. | |
+5 letters: fluegelhorns, gracefullest, gratefullest, guilefulness, neglectfully, revengefully. | |
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