gladhearted
adjEtymology From glad + hearted.
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cheerful
- They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous; and they soon had the camp-fire blazing up again.1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
- […] 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.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: