Gleeful
['gliːfʊl;-f(ə)l]
Definition
(a.) Merry; gay; joyous.
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Examples
- He stood up to defend Aspasia, he was seized by a storm of very human emotion, and as he spoke he wept--a gleeful thing for the rabble. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Till this moment I had listened with living joy--I had answered with gleeful quickness; a name froze me; three words struck me mute. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Was I very gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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