gladhearted
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gladhearted (comparative more gladhearted, superlative most gladhearted)
- cheerful
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
- They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous; and they soon had the camp-fire blazing up again.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- […] even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.