Meaning of JOYOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'joyus
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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 characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"
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| | Synonyms: | | ecstatic, elated, enraptured, festal, festive, gala(a), gay, gleeful, happy, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, jubilant, merry, mirthful, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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| | Antonyms: | | joyless | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Joy"ous\, a. [OE. joyous, joious, joios, F. joyeux.See
{Joy}.]
Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy;
with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.
Is this your joyous city? --Is. xxiii.
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They all as glad as birds of joyous prime. --Spenser.
And joyous of our conquest early won. --Dryden.
Syn: Merry; lively; blithe; gleeful; gay; glad; mirthful;
sportive; festive; joyful; happy; blissful; charming;
delightful. -- {Joy"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ous*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, buxom, capering, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chirping, convivial, dancing, ecstatic, encouraging, enlivening, exhilarating, festal, festive, flushed with joy, frivolous, gala, gay, glad, gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, glowing, happy, heartening, heart-warming, hilarious, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorating, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, laughter-loving, leaping, lighthearted, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, mirth-loving, on the loose, purring, radiant, rapturous, rejoicing, risible, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, thrice happy, transported |
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