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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.)

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Etymology of 'Glad'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

... determination on his part not to understand; when nothing he could say availed to protect her from herself; when they were at last face to face with a confession and an appeal which were a disgrace to both—then at last Elsmere paid 'in one minute glad life's arrears,'—the natural penalty of an optimism, a boundless faith in human nature, with which life, as we know it, ...

— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... also, so long made to Mrs Harrel of an apartment in her house, was now performed. That lady accepted it with the utmost alacrity, glad to make any change in her situation, which constant solitude had rendered wholly insupportable. Mr Arnott accompanied her to the house, and spent one day there; but receiving from Cecilia, though extremely civil ...

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