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JOYOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of or characterized by joy
Example:
joyous laughter
Classified under:
Similar:
ecstatic; enraptured; rapt; rapturous; rhapsodic (feeling great rapture or delight)
elated; gleeful; joyful; jubilant (full of high-spirited delight)
festal; festive; gay; merry (offering fun and gaiety)
gay; jocund; jolly; jovial; merry; mirthful (full of or showing high-spirited merriment)
Also:
elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
joyful (full of or producing joy)
Antonym:
joyless (not experiencing or inspiring joy)
Derivation:
joy; joyousness (the emotion of great happiness)
Context examples:
As danger thickened his jaunty manner would increase, his speech become more racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don Quixote moustache bristle with joyous excitement.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You've had a hard life; let me make it easy for you. (A joyous light welled into her eyes, then faded out again.) I'm pretty sure of getting hold of some money soon—lots of it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Mr. Peggotty, his face lighted up with uncommon satisfaction, and laughing with all his might, held his rough arms wide open, as if for little Em'ly to run into them; Ham, with a mixed expression in his face of admiration, exultation, and a lumbering sort of bashfulness that sat upon him very well, held little Em'ly by the hand, as if he were presenting her to Mr. Peggotty; little Em'ly herself, blushing and shy, but delighted with Mr. Peggotty's delight, as her joyous eyes expressed, was stopped by our entrance (for she saw us first) in the very act of springing from Ham to nestle in Mr. Peggotty's embrace.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The big change occurred on December 2 when Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, entered Capricorn, your joyous eleventh house of hopes and wishes.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“For me,” he said, “I care little for this war, and I find the life which I lead a very joyous and pleasant one. I will not go to Dax.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But busy, uninteresting, joyous faces brought back despair to my heart.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Emma saw how Mr. Weston understood these joyous prospects.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The solo over, a duet followed, and then a glee: a joyous conversational murmur filled up the intervals.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It struck me that he was joyous, in a ferocious sort of way; that he was glad there was an impending struggle; that he was thrilled and upborne with knowledge that one of the great moments of living, when the tide of life surges up in flood, was upon him.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Mrs. Norris, most happy to assist in the duties of the day, by spending it at the Park to support her sister's spirits, and drinking the health of Mr. and Mrs. Rushworth in a supernumerary glass or two, was all joyous delight; for she had made the match; she had done everything; and no one would have supposed, from her confident triumph, that she had ever heard of conjugal infelicity in her life, or could have the smallest insight into the disposition of the niece who had been brought up under her eye.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
