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# gleeful

«gleeful» in Mova's school dictionary: **full of joy, often a little mischievous or pleased with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (gleeful, more gleeful, most gleeful)

### meaning for a pupil

Gleeful means full of joy, often a little mischievous or pleased with oneself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gleeful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a gleeful feast is a happy, merry feast; the word describes a mood, not a count

### examples

- So he prepared a great and gleeful feast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gleeful/#x1)
- The gleeful children splashed in the puddles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gleeful/#x2)
- She gave a gleeful laugh when she won the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gleeful/#x3)
- The cat looked gleeful after the mouse escaped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gleeful/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gleeful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gleeful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.