glad

Significat (English)

Adj

1. Pleased, happy, gratified.
2. (obsolete) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.

Verb

To make glad.

Noun

A gladiolus (plant).

Synonyms

happy

😀

joyful

pleased

delighted

cheerful

rejoice

merry

joyous

content

delight

enjoy

pleasant

satisfied

😆

gay

jolly

festive

mirthful

overjoyed

elated

sword lily

contented

jovial

gladiolus

lively

beaming

cheery

joy

😂

jubilant

gladiola

happiness

chuffed

pleasure

proud

be glad

please

rejoiced

revel

showing

well

willing

willingly

rejoice in

good

👍

pollyannaish

active

affable

bound

bright

buoyant

cheerfulness

chirpy

comfortable

complacent

congenial

convivial

debonair

diligent

enjoying

enraptured

exuberant

fain

felicitous

fine

fortunate

friendly

genial

gladly

gladsome

gracious

gratified

jump

kind

leap

lighthearted

look forward to

nice

perky

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡlæd/

Etimologia (English)

Cognate with escocès: gled

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: glääd

Cognate with frisó occidental: glêd

Cognate with neerlandès: glad

Cognate with alemany: glatt

Cognate with danès: -

Cognate with noruec: -

Cognate with suec: glad

Cognate with islandès: glaður

Cognate with llatí: glaber

Cognate with rus: гла́дкий

In summary

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- (“to shine”).
Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), 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”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt.