Definition of Gladsome

1. Adjective. Experiencing or expressing gladness or joy. "A gladsome occasion"

Similar to: Glad
Derivative terms: Gladsomeness

Definition of Gladsome

1. a. Pleased; joyful; cheerful.

Definition of Gladsome

1. Adjective. happy, joyous, or light-hearted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gladsome

1. glad [adj -SOMER, -SOMEST] - See also: glad

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gladsome

gladioli
gladiolus
gladioluses
gladite
gladius
gladiuses
gladiusite
gladlier
gladliest
gladly
gladly suffer fools
gladness
gladnesses
glads
gladship
gladsome (current term)
gladsomely
gladsomeness
gladsomenesses
gladsomer
gladsomest
gladstones
gladwyn
glady
glafenine
glaik
glaiket
glaikit
glaiks
glaiky

Literary usage of Gladsome

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"HER HISTORY AND DEATH—gladsome PICTURES FROM MITAU—COUNT MEDEM—IMMENSE ... Czars there may follow some gladsome pictures from its social life. ..."

2. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"... ECKERT—HER BRILLIANT CAVALIER—HER HISTORY AND DEATH—gladsome PICTURES ... of the Czars there may follow some gladsome pictures from its social life. ..."

3. The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half by Charles Rogers (1855)
"RETURNING SPRING, WITH gladsome RAY.f RETURNING spring, with gladsome ray, Adorns the earth and smoothes the deep: All nature smiles, serene and gay, ..."

4. The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1827)
"Halbert looked to the right end left ; no smoke curling its grey mist from behind the intersecting rocks, reminded him of the gladsome morning hour, ..."

5. John Marshall: Life, Character and Judicial Services as Portrayed in the by John Forrest Dillon (1903)
"But he was the planetary center of the court, holding every orb in place, giving, and in turn receiving back, " the gladsome light" which has made that ..."

6. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"With retchless * hand in grave doth cover it, Thereafter never to enjoy again The gladsome light, but, in the ground y-lain, In depth of darkness waste and ..."

7. Handbook of Painting: German, Fleming, and Dutch Schools by Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Franz Kugler (1898)
"... the land was too much exhausted and the people had too far retrograded to permit the revival of so gladsome a plant as that of national ..."

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