Glad

a.	1.
	1.	Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; - opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; - said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason. A wise son maketh a glad father. - Prov. x. 1. He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. - Prov. xvii. 5. The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood. - Dryden. He, glad of her attention gained. - Milton. As we are now glad to behold your eyes. - Shak. Glad am I that your highness is so armed. - Shak. Glad on 't glad of it. - Shak.
	2.	Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating. Her conversation More glad to me than to a miser money is. - Sir P. Sidney. Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day. - Milton.
v. t.	1.	To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate. [imp. & p. p. Gladded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gladding.] That which gladded all the warrior train. - Dryden. Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man. - Pope.
v. i.	1.	To be glad; to rejoice.

Adj.	1.	glad - showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy; "glad you are here"; "glad that they succeeded"; "gave a glad shout"; "a glad smile"; "heard the glad news"; "a glad occasion" Antonyms: sad - experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
	2.	glad - (`lief' is archaic) very willing; "was lief to go"; "glad to help" Synonyms: lief
	3.	glad - feeling happy appreciation; "glad of the fire's warmth"
	4.	glad - cheerful and bright; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning" Synonyms: beaming

animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, beautiful, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, capering, cheering, cheery, chirping, chuffed, comfortable, content, contented, cozy, dancing, eager, easy, elated, encouraging, enlivening, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exhilarating, favorably impressed with, flushed, flushed with joy, genial, gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, glowing, heart-warming, heartening, high, hilarious, hopeful, in clover, in good spirits, in high spirits, inclined, inspiring, inspiriting, intrigued, invigorating, irrepressible, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, keen, laughing, leaping, lighthearted, mirthful, of good cheer, optimistic, overjoyed, pleasant, pleased as Punch, pleased with, purring, radiant, ready, ready and willing, rejoiced, riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, singing, smiling, smirking, sold on, sparkling, starry-eyed, sunny, taken with, thrice happy, tickled pink, tickled to death, well-disposed, winsome