GLOAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gloat mean? 

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

1. malicious satisfaction

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

• GLOAT (verb)
  The verb GLOAT has 2 senses:

1. dwell on with satisfaction

2. gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy

  Familiarity information: GLOAT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malicious satisfaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

glee; gloat; gloating

Hypernyms ("gloat" 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)

• GLOAT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gloat    ... he / she / it gloats   
Past simple: gloated   
Past participle: gloated   
-ing form: gloating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dwell on with satisfaction

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

crow; gloat; triumph

Hypernyms (to "gloat" is one way to...):

blow; bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt (show off)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gloat"):

congratulate; preen (pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue gloat
Sam and Sue gloat over the results of the experiment

Derivation:

gloat; gloating (malicious satisfaction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "gloat" is one way to...):

look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue gloat over the results of the experiment

Derivation:

gloat; gloating (malicious satisfaction)

 Context examples 

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)

He gloated over the spectacle of so much food, watching it anxiously as it went into the mouths of others.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The men outside shouted and applauded, while Beauty Smith, in an ecstasy of delight, gloated over the ripping and mangling performed by White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Curious glassy gray eyes they have, under red tufts, and they just sat and gloated and gloated.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And in his heart of hearts Martin understood the situation only too well, as he leaned back and gloated at Von Schmidt's head, in fancy punching it well-nigh off of him, sending blow after blow home just right—the chuckle-headed Dutchman!

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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)

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

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He gloated over his victim, and his eyes flamed dully, as he swung the whip or club and listened to White Fang's cries of pain and to his helpless bellows and snarls.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

None of the others had met the Count at all at close quarters, and when I had seen him he was either in the fasting stage of his existence in his rooms or, when he was gloated with fresh blood, in a ruined building open to the air; but here the place was small and close, and the long disuse had made the air stagnant and foul.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)