gloater

1 8.2

A person who feels happy about someone else's bad luck and shows it

noun
/ˈɡloʊtər/

: presumido

She couldn't help but be a gloater when she heard her rival had failed the exam.

Examples

After winning the game, he became a gloater, constantly reminding others of his victory.
I would remind the gloaters (especially those filling my inbox with hate mail right now) that politics tend to be cyclical.

Blog text (8)
To the gloaters crowing over the comments sections of every conservative and Republican website: burn through every gallon of that sweet euphoria as quickly and fully as you can, for it will very soon become stale and leave only the putrid taste of rot in your mouth.

Blog text (5)
The gloater reveled in his friend's misfortune, proving that schadenfreude can be deeply hurtful.

Synonyms

ghoulie

vsgloater

Offensive

1 9.9

A person who enjoys other people's pain or bad luck

shows malicious satisfaction specifically at others' misfortune or failure

the cat that ate the canary

vsgloater

Informal

9.2

A person who looks very pleased because they have a secret success

shows satisfaction mainly at others' misfortune rather than private success

Antonyms

sympathizer

1 4.3

A person who feels sorry for someone and shows support

How Smug

gloater

1 8.2

smirker

Offensive

1 7.9

smiler

2 6.3

Surface Forms

gloater singular

gloaters plural

Morphology

gloater = gloat (transparent) = gloat + er

Productive agentive formation: verb 'gloat' + '-er' yields 'a person who gloats', so meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Gloater comes from the verb gloat, an old word meaning 'to stare' or 'to look with pleasure' at someone else's trouble, so a gloater is someone who shows mean satisfaction when another person fails.