- amusement
- bliss
- charm
- cheer
- comfort
- delight
- elation
- glee
- humor
- pride
- satisfaction
- wonder
- alleviation
- animation
- delectation
- diversion
- ecstasy
- exultation
- exulting
- felicity
- festivity
- frolic
- fruition
- gaiety
- gem
- gladness
- gratification
- hilarity
- indulgence
- jewel
- jubilance
- liveliness
- luxury
- merriment
- mirth
- prize
- rapture
- ravishment
- refreshment
- rejoicing
- revelry
- solace
- sport
- transport
- treasure
- treat
- good humor
- pride and joy
- regalement
On this page you’ll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to joy, such as: amusement, bliss, charm, cheer, comfort, and delight.
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Her new joy and excitement, her gaiety and zest for life— all had been caused, not by himself, but by another.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
In Manila particularly, amidst the pealing of bells and strains of music, unfeigned enthusiasm and joy were everywhere evident.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
Light, the symbol of life’s joy, seems to be the first language in which the spirit of beauty speaks to a child.
CHILDREN’S WAYSJAMES SULLY
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO JOY
- apprehension
- awaiting
- contemplation
- expectancy
- foresight
- foretaste
- high hopes
- hope
- impatience
- joy
- looking forward
- outlook
- preconception
- premonition
- preoccupation
- prescience
- presentiment
- promise
- prospect
- trust
- beatitude
- blessedness
- cool
- euphoria
- felicity
- gladness
- happiness
- heaven
- joy
- paradise
- rapture
- avowal
- bluster
- bombast
- braggadocio
- bravado
- exaggeration
- gasconade
- grandiloquence
- heroics
- joy
- pretension
- pride
- pride and joy
- self-satisfaction
- swank
- treasure
- vaunt
- avowals
- blusters
- bombast
- braggadocios
- bravadoes
- exaggerations
- gasconades
- grandiloquence
- heroics
- joys
- pretensions
- pride and joys
- prides
- self-satisfactions
- swank
- treasures
- vaunts
- animation
- buoyancy
- cheerfulness
- cheeriness
- comfort
- delight
- encouragement
- exuberance
- gaiety
- geniality
- gladness
- glee
- good cheer
- hilarity
- hopefulness
- jauntiness
- jocundity
- joy
- joyousness
- lightheartedness
- liveliness
- merriment
- merry-making
- mirth
- optimism
- solace
- animation
- buoyancy
- cheer
- cheeriness
- comfort
- delight
- encouragement
- exuberance
- gaiety
- geniality
- gladness
- glee
- good cheer
- hilarity
- hopefulness
- jauntiness
- jocundity
- joy
- joyousness
- light-heartedness
- liveliness
- merriment
- mirth
- optimism
- solace
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as in happiness
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joy
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noun
Definition of joy
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as in happiness
a feeling or state of well-being and contentment
the inexpressible joy that the couple are feeling upon the birth of their first child
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happiness
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blissfulness
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bliss
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joyfulness
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enjoyment
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gladness
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pleasure
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delight
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beatitude
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blessedness
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satisfaction
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ecstasy
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elation
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exultation
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felicity
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warm fuzzies
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glee
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exhilaration
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joyousness
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euphoria
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comfort
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cheerfulness
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mirth
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jubilation
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exuberance
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rapture
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jubilance
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triumph
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glory
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high
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merriness
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ravishment
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intoxication
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contentedness
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lightheartedness
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gratification
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nirvana
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elatedness
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gleefulness
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jollity
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paradise
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seventh heaven
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heaven
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transport
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rapturousness
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gayety
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gaiety
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delectation
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cheer
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content
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jocundity
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gladsomeness
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
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sadness
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misery
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sorrow
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unhappiness
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calamity
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anguish
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wretchedness
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agony
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woe
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joylessness
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desolation
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melancholy
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dejection
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sufferance
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gloom
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depression
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blues
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mournfulness
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cheerlessness
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gloominess
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ill—being
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despondency
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plaintiveness
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disheartenment
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desolateness
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woefulness
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hell
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doldrums
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downheartedness
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dispiritedness
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purgatory
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sadness
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misery
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sorrow
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unhappiness
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calamity
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anguish
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wretchedness
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agony
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woe
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joylessness
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desolation
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melancholy
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dejection
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sufferance
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gloom
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depression
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blues
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mournfulness
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cheerlessness
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gloominess
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ill—being
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despondency
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plaintiveness
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disheartenment
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desolateness
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woefulness
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hell
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doldrums
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downheartedness
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dispiritedness
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purgatory
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as in delight
a source of great satisfaction
my car is my pride and joy
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delight
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pleasure
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treat
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feast
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relief
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amusement
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comfort
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delectation
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fun
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kick
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gratification
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entertainment
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diversion
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manna
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recreation
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solace
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gas
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indulgence
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ambrosia
joy
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verb
as in to delight
to feel or express joy or triumph
the whole town is joying in the fact that its oldest church has been restored to its Victorian splendor
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delight
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glory
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triumph
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exult
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jubilate
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rejoice
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brag
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exuberate
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kvell
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crow
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gloat
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kick up one’s heels
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swell
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parade
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boast
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flaunt
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preen
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swagger
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show off
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strut
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regret
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weep
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grieve
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lament
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bewail
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bemoan
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regret
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weep
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grieve
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lament
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bewail
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bemoan
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dʒɔɪjoy
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فرح
Freude
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alegría
شادی
ilo
joie
हर्ष
öröm
sukacita
gioia
שמחה
喜び
ಸಂತೋಷ
즐거움
gaudium
vreugde
glede
radość
alegria
bucurie
радость
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ความสุข
sevinç
радість
vui sướng
פרייד
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Where there was pain now there’s joy
Where there was weakness, I found my strength
All in the eyes of a boy -
She’s my sweet little thang….She’s my pride and joy
She’s my sweet little baby….I’m her little lover boy -
Feel like running and dancing for joy
For I’m loved by a pretty wonderful boy -
Bring him peace, bring him joy
He is young, he is only a boy -
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
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Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy. -
Mine is no madrigal of passionate joy,
Or orison of aught less chaste than tears.
Ruth on thy brow sits fairest. Its annoy -
He who binds to himself a joy
Dot the winged life destroy; -
Let me know some little joy!
We that suffer long annoy -
Though grief and tears the night employ,
The morning star restores the joy.