Glee

Quick meaning: Glee is a noun meaning (uncountable) Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.

Meaning

(uncountable) Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
2. (singing, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
3. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

Example Sentences

I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made.

Sometimes they had glees, when Captain Strong’s chest was of vast service, and he boomed out in a prodigious bass, of which he was not a little proud.

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

Word Forms

• glees
• gleeing
• gleed

Synonyms for glee

Depending on context, synonyms include merriment, mirth, gaiety, gloat, blitheness, blithesomeness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gleefulness, gloat, gloating, schadenfreude, mirthfulness, mirth.

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