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GLADSOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gladsome mean?
• GLADSOME (adjective)
The adjective GLADSOME has 1 sense:
1. experiencing or expressing gladness or joy
Familiarity information: GLADSOME used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Experiencing or expressing gladness or joy
Context example:
a gladsome occasion
Similar:
glad (showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy)
Derivation:
gladsomeness (experiencing joy and pleasure)
Context examples
Nature must be gladsome when I was so happy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
That won't harm ye, my pretty; an' it may make poor Geordie gladsome to have so trim a lass sittin' on his lap. That won't hurt ye.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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