What's the difference between gleeful and related?

Gleeful


Definition:

  • (a.) Merry; gay; joyous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (2) The joke, the uncontainable amusement, the gleeful satisfaction, was that most rational people had thought that he was too disabled to walk 26 miles, that he was too sick.
  • (3) That said, a year or two ago I watched Pappy’s gleeful sketches (on a stage about a mile away) at Latitude and it seemed like something stretching back to music hall.
  • (4) Yet for anyone who has woken up in the early hours worried and scared by Trump, this gleeful display of sheer satisfaction with life may seem a bit rich.
  • (5) The original Sharknado (tagline: “Enough said!”) made waves in 2013 for its gleeful disregard for scientific fact and so-bad-its-amazing dialogue.
  • (6) We never revel in it in any sort of gleeful or nihilistic sense; but, on the other hand, we want to be clear-eyed and realistic about these choices Walter has made and this world he's forced himself into."
  • (7) Full of gleeful scorn, the Daily Kos’s Jed Lewison used the report to say that conservatives think that Benghazi is in Cuba.
  • (8) Less than four months later, amid rancour, rifts and reams of gleeful commentary in the mainstream Italian media, the euphoria of that stunning breakthrough appears largely to have evaporated.
  • (9) The gleeful ANC claimed this proved what it had been saying all along: that the DA protects the privilege of Cape Town's affluent suburbanites while kicking its township dwellers in the teeth.
  • (10) His old swagger was restored and by the time he crossed the line after accelerating away from Gatlin as they rounded the back of the curve, it had become a gleeful strut and he thumped his chest in celebration.
  • (11) Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives.
  • (12) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
  • (13) Who couldn't be stirred by the gleeful noir of the opening theme , nor by the Boccherini Minuet that the film makes famous again (their cover story is they're an amateur string quintet)?
  • (14) 'Ten years a minor academic in a provincial university," says Phillip Blond, with a kind of gleeful amazement, "and then suddenly, it all changed."
  • (15) was the gleeful headline, last summer, in a report by the Sun that claimed he was playing "wages poker" with Inbetweeners producers.
  • (16) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
  • (17) for hours at a time, despite you spending £300 fitting a cat flap into the double glazing, just through sheer gleeful bloody mindedness.
  • (18) A gleeful Abbott hit that one out of the park: "The important thing is that the measures have been put in place which have dramatically slowed boat arrivals – that is the important thing.
  • (19) But the gleeful response to Piketty's "errors" on the rightwing Twittersphere did not happen because some FT pointy-heads discovered a few fat-finger inputs.
  • (20) Although it cheered his gleeful backbenchers, he must privately worry at how slowly the undoubted good news is translating into economic optimism and identifiable votes for the Conservative party to harvest.

Related


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Relate
  • (p. p. & a.) Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.
  • (p. p. & a.) Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related.
  • (p. p. & a.) Narrated; told.
  • (p. p. & a.) Same as Relative, 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
  • (2) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
  • (3) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (4) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
  • (5) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
  • (6) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
  • (7) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
  • (8) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (9) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
  • (10) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (11) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (12) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (13) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (14) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (15) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
  • (16) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
  • (17) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (18) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (19) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
  • (20) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.