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gleefull

gleefull is the archaic form of gleeful.

Meaning of gleeful

Adjective

gleeful (comparative more gleeful, superlative most gleeful)

  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...2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents

Forms of gleefull

comparativemore gleefull
superlativemost gleefull

Questions about gleefull

What is gleefull the archaic form of?
Gleefull is the archaic form of gleeful.

Words near gleefull in the dictionary

  1. gleecraft
  2. gleed
  3. Gleedonian
  4. gleeds
  5. gleeful
  6. gleefull
  7. gleefully
  8. gleefulness
  9. gleeing
  10. gleeish
  11. gleeishly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gleefull (page history and authors); gleeful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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