gladden

Other forms of gladden

past tense

gladdenned·

present participle

gladdenning·

third person

gladdens·

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 gladden

What does gladden mean?

gladden means "make glad or happy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gladden?

gladden has 2 syllables: glad-den. The stress falls on "glad". In IPA it is /ˈɡlædən/.

What is another word for gladden?

Close synonyms include joy. 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 gladden?

The recorded antonyms are sadden, sadden.

Is gladden a common word?

gladden is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.