Glad

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glad \Glad\ (gl[a^]d), a. [Compar. {Gladder}; superl.
     {Gladdest}.] [AS. gl[ae]d bright, glad; akin to D. glad
     smooth, G. glatt, OHG. glat smooth, shining, Icel. gla[eth]r
     glad, bright, Dan. & Sw. glad glad, Lith. glodas smooth, and
     prob. to L. glaber, and E. glide. Cf. {Glabrous}.]
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     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.
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              A wise son maketh a glad father.      --Prov. x. 1.
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              He that is glad at calamities shall not be
              unpunished.                           --Prov. xvii.
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              The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              He, glad of her attention gained.     --Milton.
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              As we are now glad to behold your eyes. --Shak.
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              Glad am I that your highness is so armed. --Shak.
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     {Glad on 't}, glad of it. [Colloq.] --Shak.
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     2. Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting
        joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.
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              Her conversation
              More glad to me than to a miser money is. --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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              Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     Syn: Pleased; gratified; exhilarated; animated; delighted;
          happy; cheerful; joyous; joyful; cheering; exhilarating;
          pleasing; animating.
  
     Usage: {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glad \Glad\, v. i.
     To be glad; to rejoice. [Obs.] --Massinger.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glad \Glad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gladded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Gladding}.] [AS. gladian. See {Glad}, a., and cf. {Gladden},
     v. t.]
     To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate. --Chaucer.
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           That which gladded all the warrior train. --Dryden.
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           Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.
                                                    --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glad
       adj 1: showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy;
              "glad you are here"; "glad that they succeeded"; "gave
              a glad shout"; "a glad smile"; "heard the glad news";
              "a glad occasion" [ant: {sad}]
       2: (`lief' is archaic) very willing; "was lief to go"; "glad to
          help" [syn: {lief(p)}]
       3: feeling happy appreciation; "glad of the fire's warmth"
       4: cheerful and bright; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning"
          [syn: {beaming}]
       [also: {gladdest}, {gladder}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "glad":
     animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, beautiful, blessed,
     blissful, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, capering,
     charmed, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chirping, chuffed,
     comfortable, content, contented, cozy, dancing, delighted, eager,
     easy, elated, encouraging, enlivening, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted,
     exhilarated, exhilarating, favorably impressed with, flushed,
     flushed with joy, gay, genial, gladdening, gladsome, gleeful,
     glowing, gratified, happy, heart-warming, heartening, high,
     hilarious, hopeful, in clover, in good spirits, in high spirits,
     inclined, inspiring, inspiriting, intrigued, invigorating,
     irrepressible, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, keen,
     laughing, leaping, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, of good cheer,
     optimistic, overjoyed, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch,
     pleased with, purring, radiant, ready, ready and willing, rejoiced,
     riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfied, singing, smiling,
     smirking, sold on, sparkling, starry-eyed, sunny, taken with,
     thrice happy, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death,
     well-disposed, winsome