Adjective

(en adjective)

Entertaining.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-21

, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Your gift at Christmas will soon be junk , volume=188, issue=2, page=24 , date=2012-12-10 , magazine= citation , passage=They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.}}

Funny, hilarious.

Adjective

(en-adj)

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.