Joy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness.
  • n. The expression or manifestation of such feeling.
  • n. A source or an object of pleasure or satisfaction: their only child, their pride and joy.
  • verb-intransitive. To take great pleasure; rejoice.
  • v. Archaic To fill with ecstatic happiness, pleasure, or satisfaction.
  • v. Archaic To enjoy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The feeling of happiness, extreme cheerfulness.
  • n. An activity etc which causes this feeling.
  • v. To feel joy, to rejoice.
  • v. To enjoy.
  • v. To give joy to; to congratulate.
  • v. To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.
  • n. That which causes joy or happiness.
  • n. The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
  • verb-intransitive. To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
  • v. To give joy to; to congratulate.
  • v. To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
  • v. To enjoy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An emotion of pleasure, generally sudden, caused by the gratification of any passion or desire; ardent happiness arising from present or expected good; exultant satisfaction; exhilaration of spirits; gladness; delight.
  • n. A source of enjoyment or rejoicing; that which causes gladness or happiness.
  • n. Diversion; festivity.
  • n. An occasional name of the plant Ranunculus arvensis.
  • n. Synonyms Pleasure, Delight, etc. (see gladness); Glee, etc. (see hilarity); happiness, felicity, rapture, bliss.
  • To take or feel joy; rejoice; be glad; exult.
  • To give joy to;cause to rejoice; gladden; delight.
  • To enjoy; possess with pleasure, or have pleasure in the possession of.
  • To wish joy to; felicitate; congratulate.
  • n. In astrology, an inferior fortitude, as when a planet is in the dignities of another planet congenial to him.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the emotion of great happiness
  • v. make glad or happy
  • v. feel happiness or joy
  • n. something or someone that provides a source of happiness
  • Verb Form
    joyed    joying    joys   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    overjoy   
    Form
    joyed    joying    traveller's joy    joyance    joygasm    joystick    cocky's joy    enjoy    no joy    joyless   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pleasure    happiness    exultation    gladness    delight    festivity    felicity    ecstasy    transport    mirth   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Elroy    Floy    Goy    Illinois    Oi    Roy    Savoy    Troy    ahoy    annoy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    delight    excitement    emotion    hope    pride    beauty    enthusiasm    triumph    terror    control