Gladness Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Gladness

delight
Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment:
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cheer
Gaiety; gladness; joy
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mirth
Gladness and merriment, especially when expressed by laughter.
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blessedness
The state or condition of being blessed, holy.
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cheerfulness
The state of being cheerful; joy.
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joy
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
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joyfulness
The state of being joyful
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beatitude
Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
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bliss
Extreme happiness; ecstasy.
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felicity
Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
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gladfulness
The quality of being gladful.
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gladsomeness
(Archaic) gladness
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Antonyms for Gladness

dismay
Dismay is defined as a sudden or total loss of courage.
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sadness
(Uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
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unhappiness
The feeling of not being happy
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woe
Woe is a feeling of deep sorrow or grief.
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Words Related to Gladness

happiness
(Archaic) Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
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happy
A condition of supreme well-being and good spirits
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sorrow
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singleness of heart
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fulness
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rejoice
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teares
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Gladness Sentence Examples

  • Hence it was the closing feast of the harvest gladness.

  • He is poor and helpless and lonely now, but before another April education will have brought light and gladness into Tommy's life.

  • Hence we find that later thinkers of the Cyrenaic school felt themselves compelled to change their fundamental notion; thus Theodorus defined the good as" gladness " (Xapa) depending on wisdom, as distinct from mere pleasure, while Hegesias proclaimed that happiness was unattainable, and that the chief function of wisdom was to render life painless by producing indifference to all things that give pleasure.

  • She has flitted from object to object, asking the name of everything and kissing me for very gladness.

  • Even the " joy and gladness " (Xapa, eu4po n vn) that accompany the exercise of virtue seem to have been regarded by them as merely an inseparable accident, not the essential constituent of well-being.

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