One word for joy

  • 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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How to use joy in a sentence

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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  • pleasure, contentment

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Synonyms of joy

  • noun



  • as in happiness



  • as in delight

  • verb



  • as in to delight

  • as in happiness
  • as in delight
  • as in to delight


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joy
1 of 2

noun

Definition of joynext

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • happiness

  • blissfulness

  • bliss

  • joyfulness

  • enjoyment

  • gladness

  • pleasure

  • delight

  • beatitude

  • blessedness

  • satisfaction

  • ecstasy

  • elation

  • exultation

  • felicity

  • warm fuzzies

  • glee

  • exhilaration

  • joyousness

  • euphoria

  • comfort

  • cheerfulness

  • mirth

  • jubilation

  • exuberance

  • rapture

  • jubilance

  • triumph

  • glory

  • high

  • merriness

  • ravishment

  • intoxication

  • contentedness

  • lightheartedness

  • gratification

  • nirvana

  • elatedness

  • gleefulness

  • jollity

  • paradise

  • seventh heaven

  • heaven

  • transport

  • rapturousness

  • gayety

  • gaiety

  • delectation

  • cheer

  • content

  • jocundity

  • gladsomeness


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sadness

  • misery

  • sorrow

  • unhappiness

  • calamity

  • anguish

  • wretchedness

  • agony

  • woe

  • joylessness

  • desolation

  • melancholy

  • dejection

  • sufferance

  • gloom

  • depression

  • blues

  • mournfulness

  • cheerlessness

  • gloominess

  • illbeing

  • despondency

  • plaintiveness

  • disheartenment

  • desolateness

  • woefulness

  • hell

  • doldrums

  • downheartedness

  • dispiritedness

  • purgatory

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  • sadness

  • misery

  • sorrow

  • unhappiness

  • calamity

  • anguish

  • wretchedness

  • agony

  • woe

  • joylessness

  • desolation

  • melancholy

  • dejection

  • sufferance

  • gloom

  • depression

  • blues

  • mournfulness

  • cheerlessness

  • gloominess

  • illbeing

  • despondency

  • plaintiveness

  • disheartenment

  • desolateness

  • woefulness

  • hell

  • doldrums

  • downheartedness

  • dispiritedness

  • purgatory

  • Gehenna

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2

as in delight

a source of great satisfaction

my car is my pride and joy

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • delight

  • pleasure

  • treat

  • feast

  • relief

  • amusement

  • comfort

  • delectation

  • fun

  • kick

  • gratification

  • entertainment

  • diversion

  • manna

  • recreation

  • solace

  • gas

  • indulgence

  • ambrosia

joy

2 of 2

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • delight

  • glory

  • triumph

  • exult

  • jubilate

  • rejoice

  • brag

  • exuberate

  • kvell

  • crow

  • gloat

  • kick up one’s heels

  • swell

  • parade

  • boast

  • flaunt

  • preen

  • swagger

  • show off

  • strut


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • regret

  • weep

  • grieve

  • lament

  • bewail

  • bemoan

  • regret

  • weep

  • grieve

  • lament

  • bewail

  • bemoan

Thesaurus Entries Near joy

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joy

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What rhymes with joy?
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فرح

Freude

Χαρά

alegría

شادی

ilo

joie

हर्ष

öröm

sukacita

gioia

שמחה

喜び

ಸಂತೋಷ

즐거움

gaudium

vreugde

glede

radość

alegria

bucurie

радость

ఆనందం

ความสุข

sevinç

радість

vui sướng

פרייד

喜悅

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  1. Where there was pain now there’s joy
    Where there was weakness, I found my strength
    All in the eyes of a boy

  2. She’s my sweet little thang….She’s my pride and joy
    She’s my sweet little baby….I’m her little lover boy

  3. Feel like running and dancing for joy
    For I’m loved by a pretty wonderful boy

  4. Bring him peace, bring him joy
    He is young, he is only a boy

  5. Let men their songs employ
    While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
    Repeat the sounding joy

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  1. Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
    He chortled in his joy.

  2. Mine is no madrigal of passionate joy,
    Or orison of aught less chaste than tears.
    Ruth on thy brow sits fairest. Its annoy

  3. He who binds to himself a joy
    Dot the winged life destroy;

  4. Let me know some little joy!
    We that suffer long annoy

  5. Though grief and tears the night employ,
    The morning star restores the joy.

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