glad

1. 1.

   any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated

   Synonymsgladiolusgladiolasword lily

   Broaderiridaceous plant

   Part ofgenus Gladiolus

Other forms of glad

plural

glads·

comparative or superlative

gladder

comparative or superlative

gladdest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about glad

What does glad mean?

glad means "showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glad?

glad has 1 syllable: glad. In IPA it is /ˈɡlæd/.

What is another word for glad?

Close synonyms include happy, beaming, gladiolus, gladiola, sword lily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of glad?

The recorded antonyms are sad.

Is glad a common word?

glad is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.