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 (`lief' is archaic) very willing; "was lief to go"; "glad to help" [syn: lief(p)]

3 feeling happy appreciation; "glad of the fire's warmth"

4 cheerful and bright; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning" [syn: beaming] [also: gladdest, gladder]

English

Etymology

From glæd

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æd

Adjective

1. pleased, happy, satisfied

Antonyms

• sorrowfull
• sad
• downcast
• peevish
• cranky
• heavy
• depressed

Derived terms

• engladden
• gladden
• gladly

Translations

• Albanian: gëzuar
• Catalan: alegre
• Croatian: veseo, radostan
• Danish: glad
• Dutch: blij, verheugd
• Faroese: glaður, glað
• German: froh, fröhlich
• French: content
• Hungarian: vidám
• Irish: áthasach, as a predicative, usually expressed by a construction with the noun áthas
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: پێخۆشحاڵ

• Portuguese: grato, feliz, alegre, contente
• Romanian: bucuros, vesel
• Russian: счастлив
• Slovene: vesel
• Spanish: contento, contenta
• Swedish: glad, nöjd, belåten

Bosnian

Noun

1. hunger

Croatian

Etymology

Common Slavic *gold

Noun

1. hunger

Declension

Danish

Adjective

glad

1. happy, glad

Dutch

Alternative spellings

• gladde

Adjective

glad (comparative: gladder, superlative: gladst)

1. smooth, polished
2. slippery

Norwegian

Pronunciation

• /gɽɑː/, /glɑː/

Adjective

1. happy, glad

Serbian

Noun

1. hunger

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

• /glɑːd/

glad

1. happy, glad

wikt glad Glad can refer to:

• Glad (duke), ruler in the territory of Banat, who was defeated by the Magyars during the 10th century
• Glad (band), a Christian pop/rock and a cappella music group formed in 1972
• Glad (company), an American brand of household plastic bags and containers
• "Glad" (song), a song by the British rock band Traffic
• GLAD, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, a non-profit legal rights organization
• GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
• GLAD, the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness or the Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness
• Glad (Norse mythology), a horse ridden by the gods in Norse mythology

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