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joy noun [ dʒɔɪ ]

• a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
• "tears of joy"
Similar: delight, great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, glee, exhilaration, ebullience, exuberance, elation, euphoria, bliss, ecstasy, transports of delight, rapture, radiance, enjoyment, gratification, felicity, cloud nine, seventh heaven, joie de vivre, delectation, joyousness, jouissance, ravishment, jocundity, pleasure, source of pleasure, treat, thrill, buzz, kick,
Opposite: misery, despair, trial, tribulation,

joy verb

• rejoice.
• "I felt shame that I had ever joyed in his discomfiture or pain"
Origin: Middle English: from Old French joie, based on Latin gaudium, from gaudere ‘rejoice’.

be full of the joys of spring

• be lively and cheerful.

wish someone joy

• congratulate someone.
"I wish you joy of your marriage"



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