Excitement vs Glad - What's the difference?
excitement | glad |
(uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
* E.A. Poe, '' The unparalelled adventure of one Hans Pfaal':
(countable) something that excites.
Pleased, happy, gratified.
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*(Bible), (w) x.1:
*:A wise son maketh a glad father.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Glad am I that your highness is so armed.
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*:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
(lb) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
*:Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Glad' evening and ' glad morn crowned the fourth day.
To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
* Dryden
* Alexander Pope
* 1922 , , Epithalamium , line 3
As a noun excitement
is (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).As a verb glad is
.excitement
English
Noun
- By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement .
glad
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Usage notes
The comparative "gladder" and superlative "gladdest" are not incorrect but may be unfamiliar enough to be taken as such. In both American and British English, the forms "more" and "most glad" are equally common in print and more common in daily speech.Antonyms
* sorrowful * sad * downcast * peevish * cranky * heavy * depressedDerived terms
* engladden * gladden * gladlyVerb
(gladd)- that which gladded all the warrior train
- Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.
- God that glads the lover's heart