Glad vs Pleasing - What's the difference?
glad | pleasing | Synonyms |
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
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
* (Isaac Barrow)
Glad is a synonym of pleasing.
As verbs the difference between glad and pleasing
is that glad is while pleasing is .As an adjective pleasing is
agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.As a noun pleasing is
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing".glad
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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
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* 1000 English basic words ----pleasing
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*Noun
- What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross