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gleefully

adv

Etymology

From gleeful + -ly.

  1. derived from *gʰlew-✻ — “to joke, make fun, enjoy”
  2. inherited from *glīwą✻ — “joy, mirth”
  3. inherited from *glīw✻
  4. inherited from glēo
  5. inherited from gle
  6. suffixed as gleeful — “glee + ful”
  7. formed as gleefully — “gleeful + -ly”

Definitions

  1. With glee

    With glee; joyfully

    • Al Habsi, so outstanding at Arsenal on Saturday, somehow scrambled the ball off the line, but only as far as Agbonlahor, who gleefully nodded home his first Premier League goal since last April.
    • Of course, the game that was ruining workplace productivity and infrastructure wasn’t innocent Tetris or the nationalistic Wolfenstein 3D—it was a game in which an ultraviolent marine gleefully murdered demons on a satanic Mars.
    • After refusing to sit down, [Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas] was escorted out of the House chamber, as some Republican lawmakers gleefully chanted “sha-nah-nah-nah, hey hey hey, goodbye.”

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA