English > joyous: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | 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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