glad
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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: eagerly disposed to act or to be of service; "glad to help"
[syn: {glad}, {happy}]
3: feeling happy appreciation; "glad of the fire's warmth"
4: cheerful and bright; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning"
[syn: {beaming}, {glad}]
n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native
chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped
leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-
shaped flowers; widely cultivated [syn: {gladiolus},
{gladiola}, {glad}, {sword lily}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
5.
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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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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