GLOATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gloating mean? 

• GLOATING (noun)
  The noun GLOATING has 1 sense:

1. malicious satisfaction

  Familiarity information: GLOATING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malicious satisfaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

glee; gloat; gloating

Hypernyms ("gloating" is a kind of...):

satisfaction (the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation)

Derivation:

gloat (dwell on with satisfaction)

gloat (gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy)

 Context examples 

The girl went on her knees, and bent over me, simply gloating.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You have told us of their gloating lips; you heard their ribald laugh as they clutched the moving bag that the Count threw to them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)