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Definition of Gladsome
1. Adjective. Experiencing or expressing gladness or joy. "A gladsome occasion"
Definition of Gladsome
1. a. Pleased; joyful; cheerful.
Definition of Gladsome
1. Adjective. happy, joyous, or light-hearted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gladsome
1. glad [adj -SOMER, -SOMEST] - See also: glad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gladsome
Literary usage of Gladsome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"HER HISTORY AND DEATH—gladsome PICTURES FROM MITAU—COUNT MEDEM—IMMENSE ...
Czars there may follow some gladsome pictures from its social life. ..."
2. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"... ECKERT—HER BRILLIANT CAVALIER—HER HISTORY AND DEATH—gladsome PICTURES ...
of the Czars there may follow some gladsome pictures from its social life. ..."
3. The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half by Charles Rogers (1855)
"RETURNING SPRING, WITH gladsome RAY.f RETURNING spring, with gladsome ray, Adorns
the earth and smoothes the deep: All nature smiles, serene and gay, ..."
4. The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1827)
"Halbert looked to the right end left ; no smoke curling its grey mist from behind
the intersecting rocks, reminded him of the gladsome morning hour, ..."
5. John Marshall: Life, Character and Judicial Services as Portrayed in the by John Forrest Dillon (1903)
"But he was the planetary center of the court, holding every orb in place, giving,
and in turn receiving back, " the gladsome light" which has made that ..."
6. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"With retchless * hand in grave doth cover it, Thereafter never to enjoy again
The gladsome light, but, in the ground y-lain, In depth of darkness waste and ..."
7. Handbook of Painting: German, Fleming, and Dutch Schools by Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Franz Kugler (1898)
"... the land was too much exhausted and the people had too far retrograded to
permit the revival of so gladsome a plant as that of national ..."
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