joyful
/'dʤɔiful/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Feeling or expressing great happiness and delight: Describes a state of being full of joy, characterized by high spirits and pleasure.
- Causing or bringing about joy: Describes something that produces or is full of happiness and delight.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- She felt joyful after hearing the good news.
- The children's joyful laughter filled the playground.
- It was a joyful celebration of their success.
Advanced Usage
- "joyful noise": An expression, often used in religious or celebratory contexts, to describe a loud, happy sound of praise or celebration.
- The congregation made a joyful noise with their singing.
Variants and Related Words
- Joyfully (adverb): In a joyful manner.
- They sang joyfully.
- Joyfulness (noun): The state or quality of being joyful.
- Her face radiated pure joyfulness.
Synonyms
- Delighted: Feeling or showing great pleasure.
- Elated: Very happy and excited.
- Jubilant: Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.
- Blissful: Extremely happy; full of joy.
Antonyms
- Sorrowful: Feeling or showing grief.
- Miserable: Very unhappy or uncomfortable.
- Joyless: Without joy; not causing or feeling happiness.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Bursting with joy: So full of happiness that one can hardly contain it.
- Winning the award left her bursting with joy.
- A joyful heart: A phrase emphasizing a deep, internal state of happiness.
- He has a joyful heart that cheers everyone around him.
Adjective
- full of high-spirited delight
- a joyful heart
- full of or producing joy
- make a joyful noise
- a joyful occasion