gleeful
adj/ˈɡliːfəl/
Etymology From glee + -ful.
1
Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful.
- During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
- Synonyms
- elated, exhilarated, high-spirited, overjoyed
- Derived terms
- gleefully, gleefulness, ungleeful
- Related terms
- glee