Gloat Definition
glōt
gloated, gloating, gloats
verb
gloated, gloating, gloats
To gaze or think with exultation or malicious pleasure.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
noun
The act of gloating.
Webster's New World
A feeling of great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction.
American Heritage
Origin of Gloat
From Old Norse glotta (“to grin scornfully”) or Middle High German glotzen. Cognate with German glotzen (“to gawk, to goggle”).
From Wiktionary
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Perhaps of Scandinavian origin ghel-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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