gleesome

American  

[glee-suhm] / ˈgli səm /

adjective

1. gleeful; merry.

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Other Word Forms

• gleesomely adverb
• gleesomeness noun

Etymology

Origin of gleesome

First recorded in 1595–1605; glee ¹ + -some ¹

Example Sentences

Enow!" cried I, stopping him, "art as gleesome as the evil one a-counting of his imps.

From True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office by Train, Arthur Cheney

Are not marriage and death twined hand in hand, to render that home desolate which once resounded with the laugh of many gleesome hearts, with the glad tones of youthful revelling and joy?

From The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Aguilar, Grace

Who would be pent up within four stone walls on such a day, when he could forth with the blue above and the green below, and a thousand gleesome things around?

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various

When Winter muffles up his cloak, And binds the mire like a rock; When to the lochs the curlers flock, Wi’ gleesome speed, Wha will they station at the cock?

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Two big birds with stumpy legs and top-heavy beaks, solemnly prancing and manœuvring before one another with an accompaniment of valiant gobbles and a punctuation of occasional pecks—a gleesome spectacle.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various