gleeful

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Those phrases about temporarily impaired vision have so much energy that the feeling is almost gleeful, as if to say that even this deterioration can occasion the thrill of language.

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  1. adjective Full of jubilant delight; joyful.

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  • She was positively gleeful, and I couldn't blame her. —  MaryJanice Davidson - Betsy 07 - Undead and Unworthy
  • Those phrases about temporarily impaired vision have so much energy that the feeling is almost gleeful, as if to say that even this deterioration can occasion the thrill of language. —  The Chicago Blog
  • The boys were all but gleeful--save when they looked at the grown people, and then they tried for solemnity. —  The Long Roll
  • She was in the cloak and dress I had bought for her; looking at first very gleeful, and then very business-like, as she brought out from under her cloak a bit of paper folded with something in it What is this?" —  Daisy
  • I was a fine fellow, I was a thief, I was a hero, I was gasping with delight, I was hot, I was gleeful--I wanted to wake David at once to tell him all about it--and, incredible as it sounds, I fell asleep and slept like the dead! —  Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
 

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exultant ·  impish ·  mirthful ·  fiendish ·  derisive ·  feral ·  joyful ·  maniacal ·  anguished ·  frenzied ·  ear-piercing ·  raucous
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/ˈglifəl/
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