gleeful
Use Gleeful in a sentence
fəl adjective
full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.
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| —adj | |
| full of glee; merry | |
| 'gleefully | |
| —adv | |
| 'gleefulness | |
| —n | |
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Gleeful
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Gleeful means someone who is so happy that they feel a little silly or giggly.
And he diverted a sudden gleeful kiss into a filial salute.
Three- and four-years-old, their gleeful whoops would float down the hall to my room as they prepared for their day.
In songs that patter, jokes that wink with gleeful wit, the tone is light.
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