Glee vs Cheerful - What's the difference?
glee | cheerful |
(uncountable) Joy; merriment; mirth; gaiety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
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, title= (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
(music, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
Noticeably happy and optimistic.
Bright and pleasant.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
As a noun glee
is (uncountable) joy; merriment; mirth; gaiety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.As an adjective cheerful is
noticeably happy and optimistic.glee
English
Noun
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee .}}