glad

English

Etymology

From Old English glæd

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡlæd/

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• Rhymes: -æd

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder, superlative gladdest)

1. pleased, happy, satisfied

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

• engladden
• gladden
• gladly

Translations

pleased, happy, satisfied

Albanian: gëzuar (sq) Catalan: alegre Chamicuro: pya'kijnani Croatian: zȁdovōljan (hr) Czech: rád (cs) Danish: glad (da) Dutch: blij (nl), verheugd (nl) Faroese: glaður (fo) m., glað (fo) f. French: content (fr), heureux (fr) German: froh (de), fröhlich (de) Hungarian: vidám (hu) Interlingua: gaudiose (ia) Irish: áthasach, as a predicative, usually expressed by a construction with the noun áthas (ga) m.

Italian: fiero (it), soddisfatto (it), lieto (it) Kurdish: Sorani: پێخۆشحاڵ (ku) (péxosh-hall) Lithuanian: džiaugsmingas (lt) Mandarin: (traditional) 高興 (cmn), (simplified) 高兴 (cmn) (gāoxìng) Nahuatl: paquini (nah), paqui (nah) Portuguese: grato (pt), feliz (pt), alegre (pt), contente (pt) Romanian: bucuros (ro), vesel (ro) Russian: счастлив Slovene: vesel (sl) Spanish: contento (es) Swedish: glad (sv), nöjd (sv), belåten (sv)

Verb

glad (third-person singular simple present glads, present participle gladding, simple past and past participle gladded)

1. (transitive) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
   • 1922, A. E. Housman, Epithalamium, line 3

     God that glads the lover's heart,

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: horse · send · peace · #569: glad · hair · ran · important

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡlad/, [ɡ̊lað]

Adjective

glad (neuter glad, definite and plural glade, comparative gladere, superlative gladest)

1. happy, glad

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *glad, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder, superlative gladst)

1. smooth, polished
2. slippery

Declension

Declension of glad

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		glad	gladder
neuter singular	indefinite	glad	gladder
	definite	gladde	gladdere	gladste	het gladst(e)
common singular		gladde	gladdere	gladste	de gladste
plural		gladde	gladdere	gladste	de gladste
partitive		glads	gladders

Derived terms

• gladheid
• gladjanus

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɽɑː/, IPA: /ɡlɑː/

Adjective

glad (masculine glad; feminine glad; neuter glad; plural glade; comparative gladere; superlative gladest)

1. happy, glad

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *goldъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡlâːd/

Noun

glȃd f. (Cyrillic spelling гла̑д)

1. hunger

Declension

    declension of glad

	singular	plural
nominative	glad	gladi
genitive	gladi	gladi
dative	gladi	gladima
accusative	glad	gladi
vocative	gladi	gladi
locative	gladi	gladima
instrumental	glađu / gladi	gladima

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ɡlɑːd/

Adjective

glad (comparative gladare, superlative gladast)

1. happy, glad

Declension

Declension of glad

Inflections of glad		Absolute	Comparative	Superlative
				Attributive	Predicative
Indefinite singular	Common	glad	gladare		gladast
	Neuter	glatt
Definite singular	Masc.	glade		gladaste
	All	glada		gladaste
Plural		glada		gladaste