Usually means: Taking excessive pride in success.
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  1. gloating: Merriam-Webster
  2. gloating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gloating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gloating, gloating: Wordnik
  5. gloating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gloating: Wiktionary
  7. Gloating, gloating: Dictionary.com
  8. gloating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Gloating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Gloating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. gloating: Rhymezone
  12. Gloating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. gloating: FreeDictionary.org
  14. gloating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. gloating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gloating: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gloating)

▸ noun:  The act of one who gloats.

Similar:
glee, schadenfreude, brag, vainglorying, gorging, braggartism, exultation, glutting, braggardism, exulting, more...

Opposite:
commiseration, sympathy, empathy

Types:
self-satisfied, smug, self-congratulatory, more...

Phrases:
opposite of gloating, more...

Adjectives:
little, dumb, such, malicious, secret, triumphant, mere, sexual, strange, public, holy



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Similar:
glee, schadenfreude, brag, vainglorying, gorging, braggartism, exultation, glutting, braggardism, exulting, more...

Opposite:
commiseration, sympathy, empathy

Types:
self-satisfied, smug, self-congratulatory, more...

Phrases:
opposite of gloating, more...

Adjectives:
little, dumb, such, malicious, secret, triumphant, mere, sexual, strange, public, holy



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