Word Meanings - GLEEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Merry; gay; joyous. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLEEFUL)

• Glad
• Happy
• joyous
• pleased
• gratified
• blithesome
• gleeful
• gladsome
• delighted
• cheerful
• elated
• joyful
• Jocund
• Merry
• jovial
• gay
• careless
• mirthful
• hilarious
• sprightly
• sportive
• lively
• vivacious

Related words: (words related to GLEEFUL)

• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• JOVIALITY
  The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• ELATION
  A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• JOVIALTY
  Joviality. Barrow.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• JOVIALIST
  One who lives a jovial life. Bp. Hall.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• JOVIALNESS
  Noisy mirth; joviality. Hewyt.
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• PLEASURIST
  A person devoted to worldly pleasure. Sir T. Browne.
• JOVIAL
  planet Jupiter was thought to make those born under it joyful or 1. Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. Our jovial star reigned at his birth. Shak. The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial
• GRATIFIER
  One who gratifies or pleases.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• GELATIFICATION
  The formation of gelatin.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• CRENELATION
  The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• ANHELATION
  Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
• GELATINATION
  The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.