| 单词 | gleefully |
| 释义 | gleefully (once / 3095 pages) adv When you do something gleefully, you do it in an extremely happy way. If two kids call to each other gleefully across the playground, there's laughter and delight in their voices. Wedding guests might rush gleefully onto the dance floor when the DJ plays a popular song, and a child who is trick or treating for the first time will often gleefully dress in her ghost costume and even more gleefully watch her plastic pumpkin fill with Halloween candy. The adjective gleeful and related noun glee are at the root of gleefully, all of them sharing the Latin root word gliu, "entertainment, mirth, jest, or play." WORD FAMILYgleeful: gleefulest, gleefully, gleefulness+/glee: gleeful, glees USAGE EXAMPLESOne of the guest speakers, a self-described “technology guru” for the then-fledgling Clinton administration gleefully informed us that we were all dinosaurs. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) Headlines gleefully predicted the demise of the GOP. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) “My audience hates your guts more!” she retorts, leading him to gleefully respond, “My audience would like to stab you relentlessly in the eye.” Salon(Dec 20, 2016) adv in a joyous and gleeful manner the old man had greeted her gleefully Syn|Ant joyfully, joyously joylessly in a joyless manner; without joy |
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