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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



... will be glad to have pointed out to them more in detail the things which are especially applicable to their work in school and which will help them in the mastery of the subject so that their school work will be made easier and they may raise their rank ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... said Josephine. "Then I'm glad I'm not a fashionable lady. Fancy starving all that long time! I'm always famished ...
— Girls of the Forest • L. T. Meade
... Stewart's style has been recognised by the highest authorities. Robertson was perhaps the best English writer of his day. The courtly Walpole, on ascertaining that he spoke Scotch, told him he was heartily glad of it; for 'it would be too mortifying,' he added, 'for Englishmen to find that he not only wrote, but also spoke, their language better than themselves.' And yet the Edinburgh Reviewers recognised Stewart as the writer of a more exquisite ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller
... papers, and I felt I wasn't wanted... No—I couldn't come to the funeral," repeated Arabella, who, seeming utterly unable to reach the ideal of a catastrophic manner, fumbled with iterations. "But I am glad I found the grave. As 'tis your trade, Jude, you'll be able to put up a handsome ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... none of your majesty's subjects who intend to bear arms in your armies ought, according to the ancient custom of the kingdom, to neglect." The emperor, charmed with so prudent an answer, said, "Since it is so, I should be glad to see your expertness in the chase; choose ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 4 • Anon.


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