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Joyous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Feeling or causing joy; joyful. See Synonyms at glad1.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Full of joy; happy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Feeling or manifesting joy; joyful; glad; merry.

Causing joy; making glad.

Synonyms See list under joyful.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. full of or characterized by joy

Word Usage

"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."

Equivalent

festive merry jocund enraptured rapt jovial jubilant gleeful rapturous festal

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

blithe glad festive delightful merry lively blissful gleeful charming joyful

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

joyful cheerful merry triumphant wild eager hearty boyish