joyful [joi-fuhl] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
joyful/joyous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy
Synonyms: blithesome, cheerful, cheery, delighted, ecstatic, effervescent, elated, enjoyable, enraptured, expansive, festive, flying*, gay, glad, gladsome, gratified, heartening, high as a kite, high*, jubilant, lighthearted, merry, overjoyed, pleased, pleasurable, popping, rapturous, satisfied, sunny*, sunny-side up, transported, upbeat
Antonyms: sad, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful
Main Entry: beaming
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very happy
Synonyms: animated, cheerful, genial, grinning, joyful, radiant, shining, smiling, sparkling, sunny
Antonyms: frowning, sad, sullen, unhappy
Main Entry: blessed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy
Synonyms: blissful, content, contented, endowed, favored, fortunate, glad, granted, joyful, joyous, lucky
Antonyms: condemned, cursed, damned, unblessed, unfavored, unhappy, unlucky
Example Sentences
  • We believe that catching a squid automatically triggers joyful exuberance.
  • His joyful personality and sincere interest in all of those who worked with him will be greatly missed.
  • But the joyful noise was nothing to do with politics.
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Main Entry: blissful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy
Synonyms: beatific, cool*, crazy, delighted, dreamy, ecstatic, elated, enchanted, enraptured, euphoric, floating*, flying*, gone*, heavenly, in ecstasy, in seventh heaven, in the twilight zone, joyful, joyous, mad*, on cloud nine, rapturous, sent, spaced-out, turned-on
Antonyms: grieving, miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, wretched
Main Entry: blithe
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy
Synonyms: animated, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, gay, gladsome, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, sprightly, sunny, vivacious
Antonyms: heavyhearted, morose, sad, sorrowful, unhappy
Main Entry: bright
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cheerful
Synonyms: alert, animated, gay, genial, glad, happy, jolly, joyful, joyous, keen, lighthearted, lively, merry, optimistic, sanguine, spirited, sprightly, vivacious
Antonyms: depressed, depressing, doleful, dreary, gloomy, unhappy
Main Entry: buoyant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: light in spirit
Synonyms: animated, blithe, bouncy, breezy, bright, carefree, cheerful, debonair, effervescent, elastic, expansive, full of zip, gay, happy, invigorated, jaunty, jovial, joyful, laid back, lighthearted, lively, peppy, resilient, sunny, supple, vivacious
Antonyms: depressed, down, heavy, heavy-hearted
Main Entry: cheerful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy
Synonyms: airy, animated, blithe, bouncy, bright, bucked, buoyant, cheery, chipper, chirpy, contented, effervescent, enlivening, enthusiastic, full of pep, gay, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-natured, hearty, high, hilarious, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, jaunty, jocund, jolly, joyful, lighthearted, lively, merry, optimistic, peppy, perky, pleasant, roseate, rosy, sanguine, snappy, sparkling, sprightly, sunny, sunny side up, up*, upbeat, vivacious, winsome, zappy, zingy, zippy
Antonyms: cheerless, depressed, gloomy, grave, heavy, melancholy, sad, serious, unhappy
Main Entry: ecstatic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very happy, blissful
Synonyms: athrill, beatific, crazy, delirious, dreamy, elated, enraptured, enthusiastic, entranced, euphoric, fervent, floating, flying high, frenzied, gone*, high*, in exaltation, in seventh heaven, joyful, joyous, mad, on cloud nine, out, overjoyed, pleased as punch, rapturous, ravished, rhapsodic, sent, sunny, thrilled, tickled pink, tickled to death, transported, turned on, upbeat, wild
Antonyms: despaired, sorrowful, tormented, troubled, unhappy
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