Difference between Glad and Gladsome

What is the difference between Glad and Gladsome?

Glad as an adjective is pleased, happy, satisfied while Gladsome as an adjective is happy, joyous, or light-hearted.

Glad

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: pleased, happy, satisfied

Example sentence: I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.

Gladsome

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: happy, joyous, or light-hearted.

We hope you now know whether to use Glad or Gladsome in your sentence.

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