English > joyous: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | Full of or characterized by joy. |
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Examples | - "felt a joyous abandon"
- "joyous laughter"
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Narrower | ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rapt, rhapsodic | Feeling great rapture or delight |
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elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant | Full of high-spirited delight |
gay, festal, festive, merry | offering fun and gaiety |
gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful | Full of or showing high-spirited merriment |
See also | elated | exultantly proud and joyful |
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happy | enjoying / enjoying / enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure |
joyful | Full of or producing joy |
Opposite | joyless | not experiencing or inspiring joy |
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Spanish | alegre |
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Catalan | joiós |
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Nouns | joy, joyousness | the emotion of great happiness |
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Adverbs | joyously | in a joyous and gleeful manner |
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