adj.
(gladder, gladdest)
- pleased; feeling pleasure.
▸causing happiness:
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glad tidings.
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(often glad of)
grateful.
v.
(glads, gladding, gladded)
literary make happy; please.
Phrase
- give someone the glad eye
informal, dated look flirtatiously at someone.
Derivative
- gladly adv.
- gladness n.
- gladsome adj. (literary).
Etymology
OE glæd (orig. in the sense ‘bright, shining’), of Gmc origin; rel. to L. glaber ‘smooth, hairless’.
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