Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gad
Participle: gadded
Gerund: gadding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gad |
| you | gad |
| he;she;it | gads |
| we | gad |
| you | gad |
| they | gad |
Perfect
| I | have gadded |
| you | have gadded |
| he;she;it | has gadded |
| we | have gadded |
| you | have gadded |
| they | have gadded |
Past
| I | gadded |
| you | gadded |
| he;she;it | gadded |
| we | gadded |
| you | gadded |
| they | gadded |
Pluperfect
| I | had gadded |
| you | had gadded |
| he;she;it | had gadded |
| we | had gadded |
| you | had gadded |
| they | had gadded |
Future
| I | will gad |
| you | will gad |
| he;she;it | will gad |
| we | will gad |
| you | will gad |
| they | will gad |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gadded |
| you | will have gadded |
| he;she;it | will have gadded |
| we | will have gadded |
| you | will have gadded |
| they | will have gadded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gad |
| you | gad |
| he;she;it | gad |
| we | gad |
| you | gad |
| they | gad |
Perfect
| I | have gadded |
| you | have gadded |
| he;she;it | have gadded |
| we | have gadded |
| you | have gadded |
| they | have gadded |
Imperfect
| I | gadded |
| you | gadded |
| he;she;it | gadded |
| we | gadded |
| you | gadded |
| they | gadded |
Pluperfect
| I | had gadded |
| you | had gadded |
| he;she;it | had gadded |
| we | had gadded |
| you | had gadded |
| they | had gadded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gad |
| you | would gad |
| he;she;it | would gad |
| we | would gad |
| you | would gad |
| they | would gad |
Perfect
| I | would have gadded |
| you | would have gadded |
| he;she;it | would have gadded |
| we | would have gadded |
| you | would have gadded |
| they | would have gadded |
Imperative
| you | gad |
| we | Let's gad |
| you | gad |
Verbs conjugated like 'gad'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gad'
bad,
dad,
gab,
gag,
gam,
gap,
gar,
gard,
gat,
gaud,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to rove about," 1460, perhaps a back-formation of O.E. gædeling "wandering," or associated with gad (n.) "a goad for driving cattle" (see gadfly). Gadabout (n.) is 1837, from earlier noun gadder about (1568).
2. From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”), of obscure origin.
Sample Sentences
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This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable. [1852, Alice Cary, Clovernook ....:]
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So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?" [1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123]
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But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace. [1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML 19].”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:]
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If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one has gadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever. [1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:]