glad – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of glad

Adjective: glad

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativegladder
Superlativegladdest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore glad
Superlativemost glad

Sample Sentences

  • I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.
  • I'm always glad to be of service.
  • I was glad of receiving the tent in time for the camping trip.
  • I am glad of you. And so I have been since our first encounter.
  • I'm very glad at this decision because we'd been on the ropes for a while.
  • I am happy and glad at your success.
  • Every day I feel glad about the life I am living.
  • A wise son maketh a glad father. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 10:1:]
  • Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd / To bear the tidings of calamity. [1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene 2]:]
  • "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal." [1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is. (The New Arcadia) [a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:]
  • Glad Eevening & glad morn crownd the fourth day. [1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]

Adjectives inflected like glad

unsad, sad, glad,

Etymology

1. From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (“shining; bright; cheerful; glad”), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (“shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).
2. Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), Saterland Frisian glääd (“smooth; sleek”), West Frisian glêd (“smooth”), Dutch glad (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), German glatt (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (“glad; happy; cheerful”), Icelandic glaður (“glad; joyful; cheery”), Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless; bald”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt. See: Dutch Adjectives 'glad', German Adjectives 'glatt', Swedish Adjectives 'glad', Latin Adjectives 'glaber'.