different between glad vs lively

glad

English

Etymology

From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (shining; bright; cheerful; glad), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat), from Proto-Indo-European *g?lad?-, from *??elh?- (to shine).

Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (shining; bright; glad), Saterland Frisian glääd (smooth; sleek), West Frisian glêd (smooth), Dutch glad (smooth; sleek; slippery), German glatt (smooth; sleek; slippery), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (glad; happy; cheerful), Icelandic glaður (glad; joyful; cheery), Latin glaber (smooth; hairless; bald). Doublet of glatt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?læd/
  • Rhymes: -æd

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder or more glad, superlative gladdest or most glad)

  1. Pleased, happy, gratified.
    • A wise son maketh a glad father.
    • 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III Scene 2
      Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd / To bear the tidings of calamity.
    • "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."
  2. (obsolete) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
    • 1590, Philip Sidney, Arcadia
      Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.

Antonyms

  • sorrowful
  • sad
  • downcast
  • peevish
  • cranky
  • heavy
  • depressed

Derived terms

  • engladden
  • gladden
  • gladly

Translations

Verb

glad (third-person singular simple present glads, present participle gladding, simple past and past participle gladded)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To make glad
    Synonyms: cheer up, gladden, exhilarate
    • that which gladded all the warrior train
    • 1922, A. E. Housman, Epithalamium, line 3
      God that glads the lover's heart

Breton

Alternative forms

  • gwlad

Etymology

From Middle Breton gloat (kingdom, wealth), from Proto-Brythonic *gwlad, from Proto-Celtic *wlatis (sovereignty), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wélh?tis ~ *h?wl?h?téy-, from the root *h?welh?-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?l??t/

Noun

glad f (plural gladoù)

  1. arable land
  2. patrimony, estate
  3. (archaic) territory, country
  4. (archaic) feudal domain

Inflection


Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?lad/, [??læð]
  • Rhymes: -ad

Adjective

glad (neuter glad, plural and definite singular attributive glade, comparative gladere, superlative (predicative) gladest, superlative (attributive) gladeste)

  1. happy, glad

References

  • “glad” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch glat, from Old Dutch *glad, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?l?t/
  • Hyphenation: glad
  • Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder, superlative gladst)

  1. smooth, polished
  2. slippery

Inflection

Derived terms

  • gladheid
  • gladjanus
  • spekglad
  • spiegelglad

Adverb

glad

  1. completely, entirely (mostly along with verbs and adjective with a negative meaning)

Usage notes

The usage as an adverb is highly restricted to verbs such as vergeten (to forget) and bederven (to spoil, to rot) and adjectives such as mis (wrong, incorrect) and verkeerd (wrong, incorrect).


Middle English

Alternative forms

  • glade, gladde, glaid, gled

Etymology

From Old English glæd, from Proto-West Germanic *glad.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?la?d/, /?lad/

Adjective

glad

  1. joyful, merry, happy

Descendants

  • English: glad
  • Scots: gled, glaid
  • Yola: glaude

References

  • “gl??d, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /????/, /?l??/

Adjective

glad (neuter singular glad, definite singular and plural glade, comparative gladere, indefinite superlative gladest, definite superlative gladeste)

  1. happy, glad

References

  • “glad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr. Akin to English glad.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?l??/

Adjective

glad (neuter singular glad, definite singular and plural glade, comparative gladare, indefinite superlative gladast, definite superlative gladaste)

  1. happy, glad

References

  • “glad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gladaz

Adjective

glad

  1. glad

Declension



Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gold?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?lâ?d/

Noun

gl?d f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. hunger
    ko radi, ne boji se gladi

Declension


Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish glaþer, from Old Norse glaðr, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?lad?-, derivation of Proto-Indo-European *g?el- (to shine).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?l??d/

Adjective

glad (comparative gladare, superlative gladast)

  1. happy, glad

Declension

Anagrams

  • lagd

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lively

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?la?vli/

Etymology 1

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English l?fl?? (living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital), equivalent to life +? -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely (of or pertaining to life, vital, living, life-like). Doublet of lifely.

Alternative forms

  • lifely (obsolete)

Adjective

lively (comparative livelier, superlative liveliest)

  1. Full of life; energetic.
  2. Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
    • 1704, Isaac Newton, Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
      The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies.
    • 1688, Robert South, Sacramental Preparation: Set forth in a Sermon on Matthew 5, 12.
      His faith must be not only living, but lively too.
  3. (archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
    • c. 1600, Philemon Holland
      chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves
  4. (archaic) Representing life; lifelike.
    • 1632, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry
      I spied the lively picture of my father.
  5. (archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.
  6. (of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
Usage notes
  • Nouns to which "lively" is often applied: person, character, lady, woman, man, audience, personality, art, guide, activity, game, lesson, introduction, discussion, debate, writing, image, town, city, village, etc.
Synonyms
  • (full of life): frisky, peppy, zestful; see also Thesaurus:active
  • (vivid, strong, vigorous): intense
  • (endowed with or manifesting life): extant, live, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
  • (representing life): lifey, limned, naturalistic,
  • (fizzy, foamy): frothy, spumescent
Derived terms
  • liveliness
  • look lively
Translations

Noun

lively (plural livelies)

  1. (nautical, informal) Term of address.
    • 1846, Herman Melville, Typee
      Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English l?fl??e, equivalent to life +? -ly.

Adverb

lively (comparative more lively, superlative most lively)

  1. Vigorously.
  2. Vibrantly, vividly.
  3. (obsolete) In a lifelike manner.
    • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220-1:
      the Painter Protogenes [] having perfected the image of a wearie and panting dog, [] but being unable, as he desired, lively to represent the drivel or slaver of his mouth, vexed against his owne worke, took his spunge, and moist as it was with divers colours, threw it at the picture  [].
Translations

Anagrams

  • evilly, vilely

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