Word Meanings - GLADNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness. They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Acts ii. 46. Note: Gladness is rarely or never equivalent to mirth, merriment, gayety, and triumph,

Additional info about word: GLADNESS

State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness. They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Acts ii. 46. Note: Gladness is rarely or never equivalent to mirth, merriment, gayety, and triumph, and it usually expresses less than delight. It sometimes expresses great joy. The Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. Esther viii.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLADNESS)

• Delight
• Enjoyment
• pleasure
• happiness
• transport
• ecstasy
• joy
• gratification
• gladness
• rapture
• bliss
• Joy
• Gladness
• delight
• exultation
• felicity
• bites
• gaiety
• mirth
• merriment
• festivity
• hilarity

Related words: (words related to GLADNESS)

• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• BLISS
  Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; beatitude; happiness; joy; enjoyment.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• HILARITY
  Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity. Goldsmith. Note: Hilarity differs from joy: the latter, excited by good news or prosperity, is an affection of the mind; the former, produced by social pleasure, drinking, etc., which rouse the animal spirits,
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• FELICITY
  1. The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good. Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer. 2. That which promotes happiness;
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• GRATIFICATION
  1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment;
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• BLISSLESS
  Destitute of bliss. Sir P. Sidney.
• TRANSPORTINGLY
  So as to transport.
• PLEASURER
  A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
• ENJOYMENT
  1. The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate. 2. That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. The hope of everlasting
• MIRTHFUL
  1. Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children. 2. Indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face. Mirthful, comic shows. Shak. -- Mirth"ful*ly, adv. -- Mirth"ful*ness, n.
• GLADNESS
  State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness. They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Acts ii. 46. Note: Gladness is rarely or never equivalent to mirth, merriment, gayety, and triumph,
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• UNDERMIRTH
  Suppressed or concealed mirth. The Coronation.
• INFELICITY
  1. The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness. I. Watts. Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.
• OVERDELIGHTED
  Delighted beyond measure.