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Definition of Gleeful

1. Adjective. Full of high-spirited delight. "A joyful heart"

Definition of Gleeful

1. a. Merry; gay; joyous.

Definition of Gleeful

1. Adjective. Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful. ¹

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Definition of Gleeful

1. merry [adj] - See also: merry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleeful

Literary usage of Gleeful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mystic and Other Poems by Philip James Bailey (1855)
"... By seven bright maids immortal, (gleeful they At the lost brightness refound) from the depths Of heaven's sidereal river drew and drank The lymph divine ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"gleeful* a. Glad, merry, joyous, light, light- hearted, gay, happy, jocund, elate. 2. Light song, song of interwoven melodies. Glen* n. ..."

3. Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages, in Black and White: Made on the Spot by Alicia Moore, Wandering artist (1854)
"The busy hum of man engaged in his daily travail — the gleeful sound of infant voices shouting in their play, had succeeded to the roaring of savage animals ..."

4. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"gleeful. gleeful as the Evil One a-counting of his imps. — CHARLES READE. gleeful as a brook or bird. — MAURICE THOMPSON. Glib. Glib as glass. ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"young girl at work among the vines; — no sound except one, and that was the quick, sharp, gleeful crack of nuts in a monkey's teeth. ..."

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