| Pronunciation: | | 'joyful
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| Matching Terms: | | joyfully, joyfulness
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- [adj] full of or suggesting exultant happiness; "a joyful heart"; "a joyful occasion"; "the joyous news"; "joyous laughter"
- [adj] full of or producing joy; "make a joyful noise"; "a joyful occasion"
- [adj] full of high-spirited delight
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| | Synonyms: | | beatific, elated, gleeful, happy, joyous, jubilant, overjoyed |
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| | Antonyms: | | sorrowful |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Joy"ful\, a.
Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful
heart. ``Joyful tidings.'' --Shak.
My soul shall be joyful in my God. --Is. lxi. 10.
Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. --Pope.
-- {Joy"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ful*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, buxom, capering, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chirping, convivial, dancing, delighted, ecstatic, effervescent, elated, encouraging, enlivening, exhilarated, exhilarating, expansive, exultant, festal, festive, flushed with joy, frivolous, gala, gay, glad, gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, glowing, gratified, happy, heartening, heart-warming, hilarious, in heaven, in seventh heaven, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorating, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, jubilant, laughing, laughter-loving, leaping, lighthearted, light-hearted, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, mirth-loving, on cloud nine, on the loose, overjoyed, pleased, purring, radiant, rejoicing, risible, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, sunny, thrice happy, tickled pink |
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