Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Gleeful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gleeful; joyous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Merry; joyous; gleeful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
gleeful ,joyous
Etymologies
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Examples
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The gleesome threesome share songwriting credits on all their One Foot in the Ether material, but possess qualities that could result in breakout status.
Michael Bialas: Denver Concert Review: Putting the Heat in the Band of Heathens 2010
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Her gleesome voice and merry laugh were the sweetest music of their home.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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Those who were at play, were gleesome and noisy as other children.
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The gleesome threesome responsible for this book include two storytellers and an artist.
Review of the Day: The Talking Vegetables fusenumber8 2006
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The gleesome threesome responsible for this book include two storytellers and an artist.
Archive 2006-12-01 fusenumber8 2006
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My gleesome, gentle Harriet! with all the sweetness and affection of shepherd love.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number Various
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Just above this point we pass the swiftest rapids on the route, where the river widens, and each side of the bank is beautiful in its wooded picturesqueness, while the waters rush, in foaming, surging, tumbling confusion, over the rugged rocks, or dart between them like a merry band of water-sprites chasing each other in gleesome frolic.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various
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He exhorted all the guests to be in honour, gleesome, and merry, and requested leave to join the dancers, which was not refused him.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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Nellie joined him in a gleesome dance of triumph round the blushing, new-fledged Dick, and Rover gambolled behind the pair, barking loudly, in sympathetic accord.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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The wise foster-mother would set all right again by some merry quip, some gleesome turn, some one of those playful gleams of humour which furnish a key to the secret of successful work among the young.
God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe
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