Experiencing or exhibiting joy and pleasure, Providing joy and pleasure, Appreciative, transitive verb_ To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate, intransitive verb_ obsolete To be glad; to rejoice, noun_ Gladness, A gladiolus, any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated