Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeling, showing, or causing joy; joyful. synonym: glad.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Feeling or manifesting joy; joyful; glad; merry.
- Causing joy; making glad.
- Synonyms See list under
joyful .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with
of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of
joy ;happy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of or characterized by joy
Etymologies
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Examples
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So I watched until I got to the scene I remembered, shouted “Aha!” in joyous triumph.
Movies & Parliaments & CFCs, Oh My! « View From a Height 2009
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I recited with a certain joyous lilt which was my own, for — his memory was good, and at a second rendering, very often the first, he made a quatrain his own — he recited the same lines and invested them with an unrest and passionate revolt that was well-nigh convincing.
Chapter 11 2010
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It may be only grandstanding for the cameras, but I strongly suspect that it is something more, that Pinera speaks and acts for a people united in joyous admiration for the miners and their rescuers: united right across the gulf between right and left, poverty and wealth, one political party and another.
James Heffernan: How a Government Takeover Saved 33 Lives James Heffernan 2010
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A class full of cheering fourth graders leaped to their feet, dancing in joyous excitement.
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009
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It may be only grandstanding for the cameras, but I strongly suspect that it is something more, that Pinera speaks and acts for a people united in joyous admiration for the miners and their rescuers: united right across the gulf between right and left, poverty and wealth, one political party and another.
James Heffernan: How a Government Takeover Saved 33 Lives James Heffernan 2010
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Her singing was in joyous response to the knowledge that her death was imminent. 148 Others sang constantly.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The playing, uniformly joyous, is almost unbelievably exuberant and intense; in lesser hands that could result in unfocused chaos.
Boston Latin Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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The playing, uniformly joyous, is almost unbelievably exuberant and intense; in lesser hands that could result in unfocused chaos.
Archive 2007-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again.
Requiem For Our Eric Dave Hingsburger 2006
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But in joyous Tex Avery fashion, nothing ever goes as Spike wants it, and we are all the better for it.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2006
rainerlourie commented on the word joyous
Alas a common word; however, one with underestimated use-potential.
August 1, 2008