English word
Glad
Definitions
adjective
- experiencing pleasure, joy, or delight : made happy
- very willing
- made pleased, satisfied, or grateful
- marked by, expressive of, or caused by happiness and joy
- causing happiness and joy : pleasant
- full of brightness and cheerfulness
- having a cheerful or happy disposition by naturearchaic
Synonyms for glad
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Synonyms by context
Experiencing or feeling delight, satisfaction, or pleasure
adjective
- overjoyed
- joyful
Feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received
adjective
- appreciative
- grateful
- appreciatory
- obliged
- indebted
- beholden
Willing and eager (to do something)
adjective
- ready
- willing
- game
- prepared
- amenable
- disposed
- eager
(archaic) To give satisfaction or joy to
verb
- delight
- gladden
- please
- gratify
- satisfy
- exhilarate
- feast
- pleasure
- rejoice
Antonyms for glad
Opposite of experiencing or feeling delight, satisfaction, or pleasure
Opposite of feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received
- resentful
- aggrieved
- bitter
- jealous
- acrimonious
- angry
- grudging
- envious
- sour
Opposite of willing and eager (to do something)
- reluctant
- disinclined
- unamenable
- unwilling
- averse
- indisposed
- loath
- hesitant
- opposed
- unenthusiastic
(archaic) Opposite of to give satisfaction or joy to
- displease
- anger
- annoy
- dissatisfy
- disgruntle
- incense
- offend
- affront
- infuriate
- insult
Opposite of to cause to become happy or pleased
- depress
- sadden
- discourage
- dishearten
- bring down
Phrases
- always smiling
- as happy as a clam
- as happy as Larry
- as lively as a grig
- as merry as a grig
- as pleased as Punch
- at ease
- at peace
- beside oneself with joy
- blissed out
- bowed down
- bright and breezy
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- browned off
- bummed out
- can't complain
- cast down
- cheesed off
- cut up
- doing handsprings