A balmy night! and tho' the stars be dim, / Yet let us think upon the vernal showers / That gladden the green earth, and we shall find / A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
Source: wiktionary
Gladden
//ˈɡlædn̩//
Synonyms for "gladden" (78 found)
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Related words (39)
Verb(19 words)
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37 translations across 21 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- εὐφραίνω verb (to cause to become more glad)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- sevindirmək verb (to cause to become more glad)
Bulgarian
2 entries- радвам verb (to cause to become more glad)
- развеселявам verb (to cause to become more glad)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 使喜悅 /使喜悦 verb (to cause to become more glad)
- 使喜悦 verb (to cause to become more glad)
- 使高興 /使高兴 verb (to cause to become more glad)
Dutch
2 entries- blij maken verb (to cause to become more glad)
- verheugen verb (to cause to become more glad)
Finnish
1 entries- ilahduttaa verb (to cause to become more glad)
French
1 entries- réjouir verb (to cause to become more glad)
German
2 entries- erfreuen verb (to cause to become more glad)
- freuen verb (to cause to become more glad)
Icelandic
1 entries- gleðja verb (to cause to become more glad)
Ido
1 entries- joyigar verb (to cause to become more glad)
Italian
2 entries- allietare verb (to cause to become more glad)
- rallegrare verb (to cause to become more glad)
Japanese
2 entries- 喜ばせる verb (to cause to become more glad)
- 楽しませる verb (to cause to become more glad)
Latin
2 entries- hilarō verb (to cause to become more glad)
- laetificō verb (to cause to become more glad)
Māori
1 entries- whakahari verb (to cause to become more glad)
Romanian
2 entries- bucura verb (to cause to become more glad)
- îmbucura verb (to cause to become more glad)
Russian
4 entries- весели́ть verb (to cause to become more glad)
- обра́довать verb (to cause to become more glad)
- ра́довать verb (to cause to become more glad)
- развесели́ть verb (to cause to become more glad)
Sanskrit
1 entries- प्रीणाति verb (to cause to become more glad)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- razvesèliti verb (to cause to become more glad)
- развесѐлити verb (to cause to become more glad)
Spanish
3 entries- alborozar verb (to cause to become more glad)
- alegrar verb (to cause to become more glad)
- contentar verb (to cause to become more glad)
Swedish
1 entries- glädja verb (to cause to become more glad)
Tagalog
2 entries- magpaligaya verb (to cause to become more glad)
- magpasaya verb (to cause to become more glad)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand. Alas! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty!
Source: wiktionary
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