Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Glad   /glæd/   Listen
adjective
Glad  adj.  (compar. gladder; superl. gladdest)  
1.
Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason. "A wise son maketh a glad father." "He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished." "The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood." "He, glad of her attention gained." "As we are now glad to behold your eyes." "Glad am I that your highness is so armed."
Glad on 't, glad of it. (Colloq.)
2.
Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating. "Her conversation More glad to me than to a miser money is." "Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day."
Synonyms: Pleased; gratified; exhilarated; animated; delighted; happy; cheerful; joyous; joyful; cheering; exhilarating; pleasing; animating. Glad, Delighted, Gratified. Delighted expresses a much higher degree of pleasure than glad. Gratified always refers to a pleasure conferred by some human agent, and the feeling is modified by the consideration that we owe it in part to another. A person may be glad or delighted to see a friend, and gratified at the attention shown by his visits.


verb
Glad  v. t.  (past & past part. gladded; pres. part. gladding)  To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate. "That which gladded all the warrior train." "Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man."


Glad  v. i.  To be glad; to rejoice. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Glad" Quotes from Famous Books



... close to the sea almost all the way. Eyebright felt as if she could never be tired of watching the waves rise and fall, or of breathing the air, which seemed to fill and satisfy her like food though it made her hungry, too, and she was glad of the nice luncheon which Mr. Bury had packed up for them. But even pleasant things have a tiring side to them, and as night drew on, Eyebright began to think she should be as glad of bed as she ...
— Eyebright - A Story • Susan Coolidge
... to his friends, when the house burned and destroyed all copies of his first book, "The edition is exhausted," but no such happiness came to Morris. And so when glad tidings of an artistic success came from Burne-Jones, he resolved to follow the lead and abandon architecture for ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... will meet in less than twenty years, but before then your glad light eyes will be dim with tears, and the easy path you have striven to walk will be thickly strewn with thorn; and whether you deserve it or not, life will have for you a mournful earnestness, but notwithstanding ...
— Sowing and Reaping • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
... excuse my company to-night. Langley will be glad to go with you; and as we sail so soon, I have ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
... in her seat, uttering these two words in a voice so full of pathetic sorrow, that it brought the pain of coming tears into Hepworth's eyes. He was glad ...
— The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals • Ann S. Stephens


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com