joyous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
joyous
    adj 1: full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon";
           "joyous laughter" [ant: {joyless}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Joyous \Joy"ous\, a. [OE. joyous, joious, joios, F. joyeux.See
   {Joy}.]
   Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy;
   with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.
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         Is this your joyous city?                --Is. xxiii.
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         They all as glad as birds of joyous prime. --Spenser.
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         And joyous of our conquest early won.    --Dryden.

   Syn: Merry; lively; blithe; gleeful; gay; glad; mirthful;
        sportive; festive; joyful; happy; blissful; charming;
        delightful. -- {Joy"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ous*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "joyous":
      animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, buxom,
      capering, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chirping, convivial, dancing,
      ecstatic, encouraging, enlivening, exhilarating, festal, festive,
      flushed with joy, frivolous, gala, gay, glad, gladdening, gladsome,
      gleeful, glowing, happy, heart-warming, heartening, hilarious,
      inspiring, inspiriting, invigorating, jocular, jocund, jolly,
      jovial, joyful, laughing, laughter-loving, leaping, lighthearted,
      merry, merrymaking, mirth-loving, mirthful, on the loose, purring,
      radiant, rapturous, rejoicing, risible, singing, smiling, smirking,
      sparkling, starry-eyed, thrice happy, transported
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