Word Meanings - GLADDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate. A secret pleasure gladdened all that saw him. Addison. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLADDEN)

• Animate
• Enliven
• Inspirit
• instigate
• quicken
• exhilarate
• embolden
• rouse
• revivify
• cheer
• gladden
• stir
• prompt
• incite
• stimulate
• Bless
• Felicitate
• endow
• enrich
• rejoice
• thank
• Exhilarate
• Gladden
• inspirit
• elate
• Rejoice
• Delight
• glory
• exult
• joy
• triumph
• delight
• revel
• be glad
• please
• enliven
• gratify

Related words: (words related to GLADDEN)

• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• QUICKEN
  1. To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. Ray. And keener lightnings quicken in her
• FELICITATE
  Made very happy. I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love. Shak.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• PROMPT
  1. To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite. God first . . . prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity. Jer. Taylor. 2. To suggest; to dictate. And whispering angles prompt
• ENDOWMENT
  1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support. 2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church,
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• EXULTING
  Rejoicing triumphantly or exceedingly; exultant. -- Ex*ult"ing*ly, adv.
• TRIUMPHANTLY
  In a triumphant manner.
• CHEERER
  One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
• THANKSGIVER
  One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• REENDOW
  To endow again.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• RIBLESS
  Having no ribs.
• LIMBLESS
  Destitute of limbs.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.