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gleefully

gleefully adverb: with glee; joyfully.

Adverb

gleefully (comparative more gleefully, superlative most gleefully)

  1. With glee; joyfully
    • Al Habsi, so outstanding at Arsenal on Saturday, somehow scrambled the ball off the line, but only as far as Agbonlahor, who gleefully nodded home his first Premier League goal since last April.2011 January 25, Les Roopanarine, “Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2022
    • Of course, the game that was ruining workplace productivity and infrastructure wasn’t innocent Tetris or the nationalistic Wolfenstein 3D—it was a game in which an ultraviolent marine gleefully murdered demons on a satanic Mars.2021 October 29, Trevor Strunk, “How To Get Away With Making An Ultraviolent Video Game”, in Defector, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2024

gleefully meaning in Urdu

gleefully in Urdu

خوشی سے

Forms of gleefully

comparativemore gleefully
superlativemost gleefully

Origin of gleefully

From gleeful + -ly.

Questions about gleefully

What does gleefully mean?
Gleefully means with glee; joyfully.
What is gleefully in Urdu?
Gleefully in Urdu is خوشی سے. See Gleefully meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is gleefully?
Gleefully is an adverb.

Words near gleefully in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gleefully (page history and authors); gleefully (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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