glad

Meanings

Adjective

• Pleased, happy, gratified.
• Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.

Verb

• To make glad.

Noun

• A gladiolus .

Related

Opposite words

• sorrowful
• sad
• downcast
• peevish
• cranky
• heavy
• depressed

Origin

• From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd ("shining; bright; cheerful; glad"), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz ("shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂-.
• Cognate with Scots gled, glaid, Saterland Frisian glääd ("smooth; sleek"), West Frisian glêd ("smooth"), Dutch glad ("smooth; sleek; slippery"), German glatt ("smooth; sleek; slippery"), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad ("glad; happy; cheerful"), Icelandic glaður ("glad; joyful; cheery"), Latin glaber ("smooth; hairless; bald"). glatt.