Joy
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Definition
(noun.) something or someone that provides a source of happiness; 'a joy to behold'; 'the pleasure of his company'; 'the new car is a delight'.
(noun.) the emotion of great happiness.
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Definition
(n.) The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.
(n.) That which causes joy or happiness.
(n.) The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
(n.) To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
(v. t.) To give joy to; to congratulate.
(v. t.) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
(v. t.) To enjoy.
Editor: Noreen
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Gladness, delight, glee, exultation, ecstasy, rapture, ravishment, transport, beatitude, beatification.[2]. Happiness, felicity, bliss.[3]. Cause of gladness.
v. n. Exult, rejoice, be glad, be delighted, be joyful.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gladness, pleasure, delight, happiness, exultation, transport, felicity,ecstasy, rapture, bites, gaiety, mirth, merriment, festivity, hilarity
ANT:Sorrow, pain, trouble, misery, melancholy, grief, affliction, tears,depression, despondency, despair
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Definition
n. gladness: rapture mirth: the cause of joy.—v.i. to rejoice: to be glad: to exult:—pr.p. joy′ing; pa.p. joyed.—v.t. Joy (Milt.) to enjoy.—n. Joy′ance (Spens.) gaiety festivity.—adj. Joy′ful full of joy: very glad happy or merry.—adv. Joy′fully.—n. Joy′fulness.—adj. Joy′less without joy: not giving joy.—adv. Joy′lessly.—n. Joy′lessness.—adj. Joy′ous full of joy happiness or merriment.—adv. Joy′ously.—n. Joy′ousness.—The Seven Joys of the Virgin:—the Annunciation the Visitation the Nativity the Adoration of the three wise men the Presentation in the Temple the Discovery of the child in the Temple amidst the doctors her Assumption and Coronation.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you feel joy over any event, denotes harmony among friends.
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Examples
- The exultation and joy of the Pickwickians knew no bounds, when their patience and assiduity, their washing and scraping, were crowned with success. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- To-morrow, loveliest and best, hope and joy of my life, to-morrow I will see thee--Fool, to dream of a moment's delay! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- How Beth got excited, and skipped and sang with joy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But, to return to our friends, whom we left wiping their eyes, and recovering themselves from too great and sudden a joy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration, that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- To Leinster's joy and our astonishment, Lord Worcester said he must really decline my very polite offer, grateful as he felt for it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The letter was to this effect: MY DEAR LIZZY, I wish you joy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She had left her room: was able to go out; and mixing once more with the family, carried joy into the hearts of all. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Seeing in this arrangement the hope of rendering real service in that pressing emergency, Miss Pross hailed it with joy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Who was better framed than this highly-gifted youth to love and be beloved, and to reap unalienable joy from an unblamed passion? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The twins testified their joy by several inconvenient but innocent demonstrations. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Blind as he was, smiles played over his face, joy dawned on his forehead: his lineaments softened and warmed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This circumstance, like the two foregoing, has an effect upon joy, as well as pride. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Where in the world was there a room so full of quiet joy! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I will discipline my sorrowing heart to sympathy in your joys; I will be happy, because ye are so. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Me loves Parpar, said the artful one, preparing to climb the paternal knee and revel in forbidden joys. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- With so much time to talk, and no definite object to be led up to, she could taste the rare joys of mental vagrancy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They represented the future she had chosen, and she was content with it, but in no haste to anticipate its joys. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- When deeply moved by serious fears or joys she was not garrulous. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Neither will you find him measuring all human interests, and joys, and sorrows, with his one poor little inch-rule now. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Such joys are reserved for conscious merit. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Men pass through such superhuman loves and outlive them: they are the probation subduing the heart to human joys. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- No--I have touched you, heard you, felt the comfort of your presence--the sweetness of your consolation: I cannot give up these joys. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on an absent child? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Laurie said, as he put the sisters into the carriage after the joys of the day were over. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The sight of those fields of stubble and turnips, now his own, gave him many secret joys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun, said Mrs. March. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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