0 showing pleasure and satisfaction because you have won or done better than someone:
1 someone who shows pleasure and satisfaction because they have won or done better than someone:
His triumphalist account of the journey remains a bestseller.
We have been deluged with so many triumphalist images in the media.
She used diplomatic rather than triumphalist language to describe the deal she helped secure.
"I'm not a triumphalist," he said.
We must allow the triumphalists their moment of satisfaction.
We enjoy the game but hate the way it turns grown men into gloating triumphalists.
