Synonyms for gladden
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Rejoice — to cause (something) to become more glad
rejoice, delight, gratify, cheer, please, feast, bless, bright, comfort, content, exhilarate, elate, enrapture, hearten, beatify, happify
2. Cheer up — to become more glad in one's disposition
enliven, cheer up, animate, glad, liven up, perk up, invigorate, quicken, liven, inspirit, elevate dated
Other
joy dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To cause (something) to become more glad.
- v. 2
To become more glad in one's disposition.
Related words
- Phrases
- gladden someone's heart
- Is a kind of
- enliven
Forms
- Past participle
- gladdened
e.g. gladdened → rejoiced, delighted, gratified, cheered…
Example sentences
- bless "You saved my life?" "Yes, my dear." "Bless you!"
- cheer He tried to cheer up his wife, but wasn't able to.
- rejoice Our enemies will rejoice the moment we fall, idiot!
- gratify She took the job only to gratify her husband.
By length
- 3 letters
- joy1
- 4 letters
- glad1
- 5 letters
- bless1, cheer1, feast1, liven2, elate2
- 6 letters
- please1, bright1
- 7 letters
- content2, comfort2, delight2, rejoice2, elevate3, animate3, quicken2, enliven3, gratify3, hearten2, beatify4, happify
- 8 letters
- inspirit
- 9 letters
- enrapture3
- 10 letters
- invigorate4, exhilarate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (liven2 = 2 syllables).