Synonyms for glee
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Mirth — joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune
mirth, hilarity, joy, laughter, merriment, delight, elation, jollity, exuberance, exhilaration, joyfulness, happiness, gladness, cheerfulness, high spirits, felicity, joviality, gleefulness, mirthfulness, jocularity, joyousness, merriness
Definitions
- n. 1
Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
- n. 2
Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
Forms
- Plural
- glees → mirths, hilarities, joys, laughters…
Example sentences
- joy Everyone shouted for joy when they heard the news.
- laughter She discombobulated me with her feckless laughter.
- hilarity Game nights were always filled with hilarity and fun.
- mirth This joke is a source of mirth for the audience.
By length
- 3 letters
- joy1
- 5 letters
- mirth1, gloat1
- 7 letters
- delight2, elation3, jollity
- 8 letters
- laughter2, felicity4, hilarity4, gloating2, gladness
- 9 letters
- happiness3, merriment, joviality, merriness
- 10 letters
- exuberance4, joyfulness, jocularity, joyousness
- 11 letters
- gleefulness
- 12 letters
- exhilaration5, cheerfulness3, mirthfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delight2 = 2 syllables).