Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction.
- noun The act of gloating.
- noun A feeling of great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A local English name for a variety of eel, of medium size and dark color.
- To cast a sidelong glance or ray; look furtively.
- To stare; gaze intently; specifically, to dwell or ponder with pleasure, as upon something that gratifies an evil passion or a corrupt propensity: as, to
gloat over the corpse of an enemy; to gloat upon a lascivious spectacle; to gloat over the ruin of a rival. - Synonyms 2. Gaze, etc. See
stare . - To convey by a look or a glance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; to gaze with passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
- intransitive verb To gaze with malignant satisfaction; to exult maliciously, sometimes also triumphantly, in another's loss or discomfort; -- usually in a bad sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
exhibit aconspicuous sense ofself-satisfaction , often at an adversary'smisfortune . - noun An act or instance of gloating.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dwell on with satisfaction
- verb gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy
- noun malicious satisfaction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"The only time you can sit back, relax and gloat is when you win it all," Dunleavy said.
National Basketball Association - Jazz vs. Trail Blazers 2000
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It's an object lesson in the dangers of race-baiting and desperation - and we don't need to ramp up the atmosphere that will create more of that by harping on this story, or appearing to "gloat" in any way.
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Let it also be clear that this is not an attempt to somehow "gloat" over what has happened or belittle it in any way.
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There is nothing in the Countryside Alliance statement which says 'he was asking for it' but you'd have to be pretty stupid to go to a hunt meeting outside your own constituency purely to "gloat".
Tipping a Winner 2005
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Let it also be clear that this is not an attempt to somehow "gloat" over what has happened or belittle it in any way.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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He was hired by one of the alleged unindicted co-conspirators Mark Schaffel and Michael Jackson to work on a music project and that Schaffel liked to put Michael Jackson on speakerphone to kind of gloat about this important person on speakerphone that he had.
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Also, you may want to give him pointers on how to properly "gloat".
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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Also, you may want to give him pointers on how to properly "gloat".
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He said some might want to "gloat", incredulous that just a few years ago the National Party, the precursor to the NNP, was describing the ANC as "communists, terrorists who killed people".
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GREENFIELD: Yes, you know, the worst thing in the world you can do in a situation like this is, as you said in that introduction, to kind of gloat and set a benchmark.
bilby commented on the word gloat
More epicaricacy! See WordNet's second last definition.
September 8, 2008