These were my favourite times, sitting before him, gladsome and proud; his thick strong arm about me.
1.1Filled with, marked by, or causing pleasure.
Example sentencesExamples
Water came ‘to cheer the high and lowly,’ and ‘a gladsome shout from the mass goes out’ to welcome its arrival.
He tells me Teddy may be headed for the priesthood and adds this gladsome note, ‘He drives the head of ‘campus ministry’ nuts, who has told Ted he is on a ‘crusade'.
Elaine made polite conversation over their gladsome cries.
Athena stood there, tiredly shaking her head at his gladsome smirk, some simper that made it apparent he was trying to toy with her.
Definition of gladsome in US English:
gladsome
adjectiveˈɡlædsəmˈɡladsəm
literary
1(of a person) having a cheerful disposition.
Example sentencesExamples
These were my favourite times, sitting before him, gladsome and proud; his thick strong arm about me.
1.1Filled with, marked by, or causing pleasure.
Example sentencesExamples
He tells me Teddy may be headed for the priesthood and adds this gladsome note, ‘He drives the head of ‘campus ministry’ nuts, who has told Ted he is on a ‘crusade'.
Elaine made polite conversation over their gladsome cries.
Athena stood there, tiredly shaking her head at his gladsome smirk, some simper that made it apparent he was trying to toy with her.
Water came ‘to cheer the high and lowly,’ and ‘a gladsome shout from the mass goes out’ to welcome its arrival.