gloatverb [ I ]
uk/ɡləʊt/us/ɡloʊt/to feel or express great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck:
She's continually gloating over/about her new job.
I know I shouldn't gloat, but it really serves him right.
His enemies were quick to gloat at his humiliation.
[ + speech ] "This is our fourth victory in a row," he gloated.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Satisfied and complacent
- at one with the world idiom
- be on to a good thing idiom
- complacency
- complacent
- content
- life
- pride
- rest
- rest on your laurels idiom
- run
- sate
- sated
- satiate
- self-fulfilment
- self-satisfied
- smug
- smugly
- that'll do nicely idiom
- thing
- world
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gloating
adjective uk/ˈɡləʊ.tɪŋ//ˈɡloʊ.t̬ɪŋ/
gloatingly
adverb uk/ˈɡləʊ.tɪŋ.li/us/ˈɡloʊ.t̬ɪŋ.li/
gloatnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ɡləʊt/us/ɡloʊt/mainly UKan occasion when you gloat about something:
to have a gloat at/over/about something
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Satisfied and complacent
- at one with the world idiom
- be on to a good thing idiom
- complacency
- complacent
- content
- life
- pride
- rest
- rest on your laurels idiom
- run
- sate
- sated
- satiate
- self-fulfilment
- self-satisfied
- smug
- smugly
- that'll do nicely idiom
- thing
- world
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