GLADDER

GLAD

beaming, glad

(adjective) cheerful and bright; “a beaming smile”; “a glad May morning”

glad

(adjective) feeling happy appreciation; “glad of the fire’s warmth”

glad

(adjective) 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”

glad, happy

(adjective) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service; “glad to help”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Adjective

gladder

comparative form of glad

Etymology 2

Verb

gladder (third-person singular simple present gladders, present participle gladdering, simple past and past participle gladdered)

(nonstandard, proscribed, rare) Misspelling of gladden.

Source: Wiktionary

Glad"der, n.

Definition: One who makes glad. Chaucer.

GLAD

Glad, a. [Compar. Gladder; superl. Gladdest.] Etym: [AS. glæd bright, glad; akin to D. glad smooth, G. glatt, OHG. glat smooth, shining, Icel. gla glad, bright, Dan. & Sw. glad glad, Lith. glodas smooth, and prob. to L. glaber, and E. glide. Cf. Glabrous.]

1. 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.] Shak.

2. 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.

– 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.

Glad, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gladded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gladding.] Etym: [AS. gladian. See Glad, a., and cf. Gladden, v. t.]

Definition: To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate. Chaucer. That which gladded all the warrior train. Dryden. Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man. Pope.

Glad, v. i.

Definition: To be glad; to rejoice. [Obs.] Massinger.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition