gladhearted

gladhearted

English

Etymology

glad +‎ hearted

Adjective

gladhearted (comparative more gladhearted, superlative most gladhearted)

1. cheerful
   • 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

     They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous; and they soon had the camp-fire blazing up again.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     […] even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.