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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.)





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"Glad" Quotes from Famous Books



... Well, you're welcome to use the lot," said John Snubble. "I'm glad o' the chanct to see an airship. Boys, this is one of them airships you read about in the papers," he went on to his two sons. "Ain't no danger o' an explosion, is there?" he asked anxiously, ...
— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer
... "I am glad, Clearchus, to listen to your sensible remarks; for with the sentiments you hold, if you were to devise any mischief against me, it could only be out of malevolence to yourself. But if you imagine that you, on your side, have any better reason to mistrust the king and ...
— Anabasis • Xenophon
... again. Mackenzie said nothing to him, only indicated by a movement of the hand what he was to do. Limping painfully, the fellow went to Hall's horse, lifted his friend's body across the empty saddle, mounted behind it with a struggle, and rode in humiliation from the field, glad enough to ...
— The Flockmaster of Poison Creek • George W. Ogden
... locked in her room, which is precisely what we had provided for, for no one in the house supposed that she could escape by the window. There was a big dog on the premises, but he and I were old friends, and he seemed very glad to see me when I came on the ground on this eventful night. Sarah was watching, and when I made the signal she opened the window and threw out her ready prepared bundle. Then my man and I set the ladder and she came safely to the ground. A ...
— Seven Wives and Seven Prisons • L.A. Abbott
... cried the boy, "I'm so glad to see you. This is Pringle, who was so kind to me, uncle, when I was ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn


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