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gladhearted

gladhearted adjective: cheerful.

Adjective

gladhearted (comparative more gladhearted, superlative most gladhearted)

  1. cheerful
    • They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous; and they soon had the camp-fire blazing up again.1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    • […] even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Forms of gladhearted

comparativemore gladhearted
superlativemost gladhearted

Origin of gladhearted

From glad + hearted.

Questions about gladhearted

What does gladhearted mean?
Gladhearted means cheerful.
What part of speech is gladhearted?
Gladhearted is an adjective.

Words near gladhearted in the dictionary

  1. gladhand
  2. gladhanded
  3. gladhanding
  4. gladhandings
  5. gladhands
  6. gladhearted
  7. Gladhill
  8. Gladhills
  9. gladial
  10. gladiate
  11. gladiated

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