Synonyms for glad

23 synonyms
16 antonyms
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1. Happy — pleased; happy; gratified

happy, pleased, grateful, cheerful, delighted, overjoyed, elated, gratified, merry, joyous, bright, exhilarated, joyful, pleasing, cheery, gleeful, gay, exhilarating, beaming, jovial, jocund, rejoiced dated

Other

animating

Antonyms

sad, disappointed, unhappy

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Definitions

adj. 1
Pleased; happy; gratified.
I'm always glad to be of service.

Related words

Word family: gladden gladful gladly gladness gladsome
Phrases: glad tidings glad wrap

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Delighted expresses a much higher degree of pleasure than glad. A person may be glad or delighted to see a friend, and gratified at the attention shown by his visits.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example sentences

happy The mere thought of it is enough to make me happy.
pleased All the orchestra were pleased with their success.
grateful I am grateful to you for inviting me to the party.
delighted The very idea of being sent abroad delighted them.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
glad		rising
happy		rising
pleased		steady
grateful		rising
delighted		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: gay¹
5 letters: happy², merry²
6 letters: bright¹, joyful², joyous², elated³, cheery², jovial³, jocund
7 letters: pleased¹, beaming², gleeful²
8 letters: grateful², pleasing², cheerful², rejoiced²
9 letters: delighted³, overjoyed³, animating⁴, gratified³
11 letters: exhilarated⁵
12 letters: exhilarating⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (happy² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: content
Italiano: contento
Español: contento
Català: content