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Definition: Gloat |
GloatNoun1. Malicious satisfaction. Verb1. Dwell on with satisfaction. 2. Gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gloat" was first used: 1575. (references) |
Note: Gloat \Gloat\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Gloated; present participle verb or noun Gloating.]. (references) |
Synonyms: GloatSynonyms: glee (n), gloating (n), crow (v), triumph (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Physical Pleasure | Verb: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips. |
Pleasure | Be pleased; with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure; n. from; take pleasure; n. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over; (physical pleasure); enjoy, relish, like; love; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gloat |
| English words defined with "gloat": Gloated, Glout. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If life's an awful bore, and living's just a chore that we do caus' death's not much fun. I just have the antidote, and though i mustn't gloat at the Moulin Rouge (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) This is where you're supposed to twirl your mustache and gloat. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Gloat" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.79% of the time. "Gloat" is used about 33 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 78.79% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.21% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gloat": gloat over ♦ gloat over smth. ♦ gloat upon smth.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gloat | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gloat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vështroj ngultas (gaze, pore), përpij me sy (Ogle). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرح (cheer, cheerful, delight, gaiety, gladden, gladness, glee, gleesome, happy, joy, joyful, liven up, rejoicing, thaw, tickle), إبتهج (brighten, cheer, delight, get excited, glory, rejoice, triumph). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | радвам се тайно, злорадствувам (chuckle). (various references) | |
Czech | pást se (browse, feed, graze, pasture). (various references) | |
Farsi | نگاه حسرت امیزکردن , نگاه عاشقانه وحاکی ازعلاقه , نگاه ازروی کینه وبغض , خیره نگاه کردن (Gape, Gaze, Glare, Glower, Stare). (various references) | |
Finnish | hekumoida (gloat over, indulge in sensual pleasure, indulge oneself, revel in). (various references) | |
French | jubiler, exulter. (various references) | |
German | sich hämisch freuen. (various references) | |
Greek | ρίχνω ματιέσ ερωτικέσ, ματιέσ ερωτικέσ, παρατηρώ με χαιρεκακία, χαιρεκακία (malice), επιχαιρώ, ατενίζω (gaze, stare). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשמוח לאיד, להביט בתאוה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vágyakozó tekintet, mohó tekintet (covetous glance), kapzsi tekintet (covetous glance), kéjsóvár tekintet (covetous glance), kárörvendő tekintet. (various references) | |
Italian | guardare avidamente, gongolare (be overjoyed). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悦に入る (to be pleased, to gloat, to glow with self-satisfaction). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | えつにいる (to be pleased, to gloat, to glow with self-satisfaction). (various references) | |
Manx | gloatal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oatglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | regozijo (feast, feast-day, glorification, joy, jubilance, jubilation, merriment, mirth, rejoicing, triumph), regozijar (overjoy), fitar (eye, goggle, regard, touch upon), devorar com os olhos. (various references) | |
Romanian | se bucura (enjoy, rejoice), nu mai putea de fericire, mânca din ochi. (various references) | |
Russian | злорадствовать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | piljiti (ogle, peer, quiz, stare). (various references) | |
Spanish | relamerse (brag, lick one's lips), refocilarse (enjoy oneself hugely). (various references) | |
Swedish | stirra (gaze, stare, pore), glo (gawp, gaze, stare). (various references) | |
Thai | มองด้วยความพึงพอใจ. (various references) | |
Turkish | zevkle seyretmek, sinsice sevinmek, kına yakmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дивитися із захопленням. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gloat": gloated, gloater, gloaters, gloating, gloatingly, gloats. (additional references) | |
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"Gloat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gelcoat, ghoat, ghoit, gioa, glart, glat, glatt, Glaut, gleaf, gleap, gleat, gleet, gload, gloak, gloan, gloar, gloath, gloaty, gloet, Glora, glort, glot, glote, glott, gnoat, goati, gola, golash, Golat, golau, Golay, gooet, Gropat, ngola. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gloat" (pronounced glō"t) |
| 3 | -l ō" t | afloat, bloat, float. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-o-t" | |
-1 letter: alto, gaol, goal, goat, lota, toga, tola. | |
-2 letters: ago, alt, gal, gat, goa, got, lag, lat, log, lot, oat, tag, tao, tog. | |
-3 letters: ag, al, at, go, la, lo, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: galiot, galoot, gelato, gloats, latigo, legato, otalgy. | |
+2 letters: antilog, catalog, flotage, galiots, galipot, galliot, galloot, galoots, gelatos, gloated, gloater, globate, glottal, latigos, legator, legatos, loggats, otalgia, otalgic, tangelo, tollage, voltage. | |
+3 letters: although, antilogs, antilogy, bloating, catalogs, elongate, flatlong, floatage, floating, flotages, galipots, galliots, gallipot, galloots, gantlope, gatefold, gelation, glasnost, gliomata, gloaters, gloating, globated, goalpost, goatlike, golgotha, helotage, intaglio, latigoes, legation, legators, ligation, loathing, locating, longboat, megavolt, obligate, obligati, obligato, octangle, otalgias, otalgies, outglare, outlaugh, pilotage, plottage, solating, tagalong, tangelos, tollages, tollgate, totaling, travelog, trigonal, voltages, waterlog. | |
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