Gladsome

3 definitions found

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

  Gladsome \Glad"some\, a.
     1. Pleased; joyful; cheerful.
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     2. Causing joy, pleasure, or cheerfulness; having the
        appearance of gayety; pleasing.


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              Of opening heaven they sung, and gladsome day.
                                                    --Prior.
        -- {Glad"some*ly}, adv. -- {Glad"some*ness}, n.
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              Hours of perfect gladsomeness.        --Wordsworth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gladsome
       adj : experiencing or expressing gladness or joy; "a gladsome
             smile"; "a gladsome occasion"

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

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "gladsome":
     beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, charmed,
     cheerful, cheery, comfortable, content, contented, convivial, cozy,
     delighted, easy, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated,
     favorably impressed with, festal, festive, flushed, gala, gay,
     genial, glad, glowing, gratified, happy, high, hilarious, hopeful,
     in clover, in good spirits, in high spirits, intrigued,
     irrepressible, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughing, merry,
     merrymaking, of good cheer, on the loose, optimistic, pleasant,
     pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, radiant, riant, rosy,
     sanguine, sanguineous, satisfied, smiling, sold on, sparkling,
     sunny, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink,
     tickled to death, winsome