Glad vs Smile - What's the difference?
glad | smile |
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
A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile? ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
(ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
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, title= To express by smiling.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
* Byron
To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
* Alexander Pope
To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
As verbs the difference between glad and smile
is that glad is while smile is (ambitransitive) to have (a smile) on one's face.As a noun smile is
a facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.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 ----smile
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(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* archaic smile * besmile * Chelsea smile * Glasgow smile * smileless * smilet * smiley * vertical smileVerb
(smil)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled .
- The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
- The desert smiled , / And paradise was opened in the wild.
- The gods smiled on his labours.