Crossword clues for gladdest
gladdest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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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.
--Prov. x. 1.He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
--Prov. xvii. 5.The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood.
--Dryden.He, glad of her attention gained.
--Milton.As we are now glad to behold your eyes.
--Shak.Glad am I that your highness is so armed.
--Shak.Glad on 't, glad of it. [Colloq.]
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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.
--Sir P. Sidney.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.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativeglad)
WordNet
See glad
adj. 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]
(`lief' is archaic) very willing; "was lief to go"; "glad to help" [syn: lief(p)]
feeling happy appreciation; "glad of the fire's warmth"
cheerful and bright; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning" [syn: beaming]
Usage examples of "gladdest".
Our voices may warble their gladdest, And our souls mourn in anguish the while.
His indelicate communication seemed to me the happiest compliment and the gladdest tidings that I could have expected from him.
And the thing that makes me gladdest of all, is just that God is what he is.
The gladdest moment for all of them is when the preacher uplifts his hands for the benediction.
For Fishhook had been one of the greatest, one of the giddiest, one of the gladdest things that had ever happened to the human race.
He was the maddest, gladdest man in all Green Valley that day until he remembered that he had sent Nan no gift, not even a greeting or a word of thanks for the beautiful collie dog she had sent him.
All that was old is young, and all that was sad is glad, and I am the gladdest of all.
Then I saw the gladdest sight that ever my eyes beheld, for on the right, not ten yards away, the water running from his hair and beard, was Leo.