adjective
definition
Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful.
Examples of gleeful in a Sentence
There was a moment of silence, then a child's gleeful laugh.
They would all get together and wash her old car, winding up in a gleeful water fight.
Toby's gleeful shout jarred him.
Once he did, he moved to the back yard where mother was pushing her gleeful young son on a large wooden swing set.
I think we can at least start polishing up our medallions and combing our chests in gleeful anticipation.
Bell's George W Bush is the unholy innocent, a literal dumb ape, a chimpanzee spreading gleeful mass destruction.
It was said that later that day the young man attended the preaching in a very gleeful mood.
Leon, listening aghast to a gleeful recital of his friend's probable fate, was ashen faced.
The public address announcer was almost gleeful in his statement of the obvious to the shivering crowd gathered at Boundary Park.
If you are the parent of a young daughter, chances are she gets more gleeful over these evening commitments than you do.