gloat
/ɡləʊt/US/ɡloʊt/
gloat verb: to exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
Verb
gloat (third-person singular simple present gloats, present participle gloating, simple past and past participle gloated)
- To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
- You did well to win the game, but there's no need to gloat about it.
- To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.
Noun
gloat (plural gloats)
- An act or instance of gloating.
- They spun wildly on their heels, jodelling after the accepted manner of a 'gloat,' which is not unremotely allied to the primitive man's song of triumph […]1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co, page 13
gloat meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
gloat in Urdu
- للچائی نظر, نیت بد, شماتت
gloat in Bengali
- গর্বভরে দেখা
gloat in Malayalam
- ദുർബുദ്ധിയോടെ വീക്ഷിക്കുക, അസൂയപ്പെടുക, അഹങ്കാരത്തോടെ നോക്കുക
gloat in Kannada
- ಹಿಗ್ಗು, ಉಬ್ಬು, ಬಿರಿ, ಹಿರಿಹಿರಿ ಹಿಗ್ಗು, ಸಂತೋಷಪಡು, ಕರುಬಿ ಹಿಗ್ಗು
More languagesFewer languages
- gloat in Arabic
- شَمِتَ šamita
Examples of gloat in a sentence
- It was common for conservatives to gloat that they were going to outbreed the left.
- After a few sips Sergio turns his abundant energies from righteous anger to gloating.
- His gaze went to Hirken, who stood gloating behind invulnerable transparisteel.
Forms of gloat
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | gloats |
| present participle | gloating |
| past participle | gloated |
| past | gloated |
| alternative form | glote |
| alternative form | glout |
| Noun | |
| plural | gloats |
Origin of gloat
From Middle English *gloten, glouten, from Old Norse glotta (“to grin, smile scornfully”) or Old English *glotian, both from Proto-Germanic *glutōną (“to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shine”), related to dialectal Swedish glotta, glutta (“to peep”), Middle High German glutzen, glotzen (“to stare”), Modern German glotzen (“to gawk, goggle”).
Words formed from gloat
Words that rhyme with gloat
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- oat
- quote
- connote
- groat
- remote
- scrote
- tote
- bote
- capote
- denote
- devote
- dote
- mote
- smote
- solar boat
- undercoat
- cote
- demote
- pote
- refloat
- rote
- undernote
- wrote
- yote
- blót
- confidence vote
- disease boat
- end of quote
- end quote
- entrecôte
- flote
- frote
- ignote
- isot
- lote
- loth
- misquote
- moth
- phot
- recoat
- rewrote
- shoat
- stoat
- swagger coat
- troat
- two hundred fifty-sixth note
- underquote
- underwrote
Questions about gloat
- What does gloat mean?
- Gloat means to exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
- What is gloat in Urdu?
- Gloat in Urdu is للچائی نظر, نیت بد, شماتت. See Gloat meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is gloat?
- Gloat can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce gloat?
- Gloat is pronounced /ɡloʊt/ (US).
- What is the past tense of gloat?
- The past tense of gloat is gloated.
Words near gloat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gloat (page history and authors); gloat (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gloat (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gloat (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gloat (Kannada 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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gloat.wav.
Cite this entry: “gloat.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gloat. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.