Meaning of GLADSOME
| Pronunciation: | | 'gladsum
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| | Definition: | | [adj] experiencing or expressing gladness or joy; "a gladsome smile"; "a gladsome occasion" |
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| | Synonyms: | | glad |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Glad"some\, a.
1. Pleased; joyful; cheerful.
2. Causing joy, pleasure, or cheerfulness; having the
appearance of gayety; pleasing.
Of opening heaven they sung, and gladsome day.
--Prior.
-- {Glad"some*ly}, adv. -- {Glad"some*ness}, n.
Hours of perfect gladsomeness. --Wordsworth.
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| | Related Terms: | | beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, charmed, cheerful, cheery, comfortable, content, contented, convivial, cozy, delighted, easy, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, favorably impressed with, festal, festive, flushed, gala, gay, genial, glad, glowing, gratified, happy, high, hilarious, hopeful, in clover, in good spirits, in high spirits, intrigued, irrepressible, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughing, merry, merrymaking, of good cheer, on the loose, optimistic, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, radiant, riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfied, smiling, sold on, sparkling, sunny, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, winsome |
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