Thesaurus:gladden
English
Verb
Sense: to make someone glad or happier
Synonyms
- beatify
- begladden
- blissen
- bright
- cheer
- cheer up
- content
- delight
- elate
- enbliss
- exhilarate
- fain (obsolete)
- gay [⇒ thesaurus] (dated, uncommon)
- gladden
- gladden someone's heart (dated)
- gratify
- happify
- happy [⇒ thesaurus]
- hearten
- jollify
- laetificate (rare)
- light up
- make someone's day
- perk up
- please
- raise someone's spirits (idiomatic)
- rejoice
- turn the frown upside down
- upcheer (archaic)
- warm someone's heart (idiomatic)
- warm the cockles of someone's heart (idiomatic)
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See also
- Thesaurus:happiness (noun)
- Thesaurus:happy (adjective)
Further reading
- “836. cheerfulness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “gladden” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.