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21+ Advanced Words and Phrases for Describing Happiness

Brenda de Jong-Pauley, April 2021

Feeling words are important. We use them to express love, sympathy, kindness and affection. Feeling words help us bond with one another. Without them, we are emotionally mute.

So how are you feeling today? Are you serene? Delighted? Zen? Today, let’s load up on positive emotion words with adjectives and phrases associated with happiness.

Tip! Be sure you read to the bottom to enjoy some musical happiness.

1. Amused

To find something funny and/or pleasantly interesting and engaging.
His stories really amused her. She could listen for hours!

2. Blissed out, in a state of bliss, blissful

To feel blissed out is to be utterly and completely happy.
When she was reunited with her sweetheart, she entered a state of absolute bliss. She was so happy, it was like she was “walking on air” and her “head was in the clouds.”

3. Content, contented

Happy and satisfied with what you have.
After years of dating, she finally found happiness with her new love. Now she is truly contented.

4. Delighted

Very pleased or happy with something or someone.
I would be absolutely delighted if my best friend would come visit me this summer. In fact, I would be “tickled pink!”

5. Ecstatic

Extremely happy, in rapture.
He was ecstatic when his girlfriend said “yes” to his proposal of marriage.

6. Enchanted

When someone is enchanted with something or someone, that person is so pleased that we think there might be some magic involved ;-).
Their afternoon in Paris was perfect, and Tom was so enchanted by the city that he resolved to live there one day.

7. Enraptured

Extremely pleased; completely engaged and transfixed.
He was so enraptured by the soloist’s performance that he could hardly breathe.

8. Enthusiastic

Eager, positive, interested in and having energy for something
I am super enthusiastic about this job interview. I really hope I get hired!

9. Euphoric

To be extremely happy. Also associated with being high on drugs.
When she won the lottery, she was euphoric for weeks.

10. Exuberant

To be full of joy and unrestrained, energetic happiness that is easily observed.
He is so exuberant about his new job that he can speak of nothing else.

11. In a good space

To be in a good space is like being in a good state of mind. Positive, relaxed, optimistic.
Since the divorce, he is in a good space and enjoying his life again.

12. Jazzed

Full of excitement and enthusiasm.
The week before the premiere of the play, she was so jazzed she could hardly eat or sleep.

13. Jolly

Full of high spirits and laughter, socially warm, friendly and positive; convivial.
Santa Claus is often described as a jolly fellow.

14. Joyous

Very, very happy.
The birth of a child is often described as a joyous occasion.

15. Jubilant

A feeling of great happiness, especially after a big success.
After the very successful launch of the new line, the company owners were absolutely jubilant.

16. Jumping for joy

Literally so happy that one cannot (or nearly cannot) stand still and wants to jumps up and down.
When the author found out his book would be published, he was so happy that he was nearly jumping for joy.

17. Mad about and crazy about

While “mad” and “crazy” can have other meanings (such as angry and insane), if the context is positive, then these phrases mean “in love” with something or someone, so much that it is not sane!
She is so crazy about chocolate that she could eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I’m mad about my new boyfriend; I think he’s the one!

18. Over the moon

So happy that one is almost floating or feels as though they are in heaven.
The kids are over the moon with the new puppy. They spend every waking moment playing with that dog!

19. Serene

Peacefully calm and happy. With no worries.
The queen looked absolutely serene as she sat on her throne.

20. Tickled or tickled pink

Happy and excited, often in response to something that just happened or some recently received news.
We got the house we bid on? OMG! I am tickled pink!

21. Zen

Mellow, happy and relaxed but in quiet, calm way. Having no worries about things that cannot be changed. Zen is a philosophical state of mind.
She is so zen about her life – I wish I could be more like her! Even when bad things happen, she just stays calm and centered and goes with the flow.

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The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it’s like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the «HasProperty» API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there’s a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files — mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it’s more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way — for example, gender is interesting: «woman» versus «man» and «boy» versus «girl». On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, «beautiful» is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world’s literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for «woman» — too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The «uniqueness» sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives’ uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it’s actually pretty simple). As you’d expect, you can click the «Sort By Usage Frequency» button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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What would you say when you’re happy or excited about something? When you feel a sense of happiness, do you ever want to share it with others? Well, Christopher McCandless said it best, “Happiness is only real when shared”. It’s our human nature to share our feelings with others, or simply to freely express our emotions. So today we’re going to learn some common English vocabulary about happiness and joy so that you can share your feelings with others easily. Now, let’s get started!

Vocabulary (Synonyms)

Blissful (a): If you feel blissful, you’re extremely or completely happy

For example:

We spent a blissful week together.

Elated (a): Extremely happy and excited, often because something has happened or been achieved.

For example:

He felt elated and excited when winning the contest.

Content/ Contented (a): Pleased with your situation and not hoping for change or improvement.

For example:

He seems content with his life.

Cheerful (a): Happy and positive.

For example:

She manages to stay cheerful despite everything.

Glad (a): Pleased and happy

For example:

I’m glad that you came to visit us.

Pleased (a): Happy or satisfied.

For example:

I’m pleased to hear you’re feeling better, John.

Delighted (a): Very pleased

For example:

I’m delighted to hear that you’ll visit us this weekend.

Gleeful (a): Full of joy, delighted.

For example:

She gave a gleeful giggle.

In a good mood (phrase): A cheerful state of mind.

For example:

When the boss is in a good mood, our whole day goes well.

Upbeat (a): Full of hope and happiness.

For example:

For all the trouble she’s been through, Anna remains remarkably upbeat.

Overjoyed (a): Extremely happy.

For example:

Linda was overjoyed to hear that she had passed the exam

Thrilled (a): Extremely happy about something

For example:

I was thrilled that so many people turned up to the party.

Common Idioms

Cry out of happiness: Cry when we are happy.

For example:

She cried out of happiness when he proposed to her.

On cloud nine: A person who is on cloud nine is very happy because something wonderful has happened.

For example:

When the boss announced my promotion, I was on cloud nine.

On top of the world: If someone is on top of the world, they are blissfully or triumphantly happy.

For example:

I was on top of the world when I found out that I’d gotten an A on my hardest exam.

Fool’s paradise: a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.

For example:

They were living in a fool’s paradise, refusing to accept that they were in debt.

Full of the joys of spring: happy and full of energy.

For example:

I was full of the joys of spring when I found out that I’d gotten an A on my hardest exam.

Grin from ear to ear: to have a broad, enthusiastic smile.

For example:

The kids ran around the beach in a happy frenzy, both of them grinning from ear to ear.

Happy camper: Someone who is happy with their situation.

For example:

With his new job and his new car, Andy is a happy camper.

Happy as Larry: If you are (as) happy as Larry, you are very happy indeed.

For example:

My dad’s as happy as Larry at the weekend when we all arrive home.

Happy-go-lucky: If you are a happy-go-lucky person, you are cheerful and carefree all the time.

For example:

He’s a happy-go-lucky sort of guy – always in good humor.

Jump for joy: to be extremely happy and pleased.

For example:

The player jumped for joy when he scored the winning goal.

Life is just a bowl of cherries: Life is wonderful or very pleasant.

For example:

I got a promotion and got engaged in the span of a week! Life is just a bowl of cherries these days!

Music to your ears: If something is music to your ears, the information that you receive makes you feel very happy.

For example:

His compliments were music to my ear.

Over the moon: If you are over the moon about something, you are very happy about it.

For example:

When she heard the results of the exam, Caroline was over the moon! 

In raptures (about/over): If you are in raptures about something, you are delighted or very enthusiastic.

For example:

Caroline was in raptures about/over her first visit to Paris.

Stars in one’s eyes: If someone has stars in their eyes, they are looking extremely happy.

For example:

Anne has stars in her eyes, she wants to go to Hollywood.

In seventh heaven: If you are in seventh heaven, you are extremely happy.

For example:

Every time she wins a match, she’s in seventh heaven!

In stitches: When people are in stitches, they are laughing a lot.

For example:

Jerry is the funniest guy I know. He can have you in stitches in a matter of minutes.

Thrilled to bits: Someone who is thrilled to bits is extremely pleased about something.

For example:

Julie was thrilled to bits when her parents gave her a car on her birthday.

Time of your life: If you have the time of our life, you enjoy yourself very much.

For example:

The kids had the time of their lives at Disneyland.

Walking on air: When you are happy and excited because of a pleasant event that makes you feel as if you are floating, you are walking on air.

For example:

Ann was walking on air when she got the job.

Whatever floats your boat: Although you don’t quite agree with someone, it’s their choice and you think they should do whatever makes them happy.

For example:

You’re going to spend your honeymoon in Alaska? Well, whatever floats your boat!

We’ve just learned a number of English vocabulary about happiness and joy. Now you can easily share your happiness with others in different ways. If you still don’t know how to use those words/ phrases, take a look at some of these free online dictionaries.

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Words to Describe Happy Feelings: Find a list of happy feelings. Use the words to express how you feel in your moments of happiness.

There are many different words to describe happy emotions. Using the right words enables people to understand you better. They also help to connect with you at a deeper level.

Find Words to Describe Happy Feelings Below

1.    Affectionate
2.    Amused
3.    Appreciated
4.    Appreciated
5.    Better

6.    Blessed
7.    Capable
8.    Cherished
9.    Comfortable
10.    Confident

11.    Confident
12.    Content
13.    Delighted
14.    Encouraged
15.    Engaged

16.    Enjoy
17.    Excited
18.    Excited
19.    Fulfilled

Read: Expressing Your Feelings to Someone You Love

20.    Glad
21.    Good
22.    Grateful
23.    Grateful
24.    Grateful
25.    Great

26.    Happy
27.    Heard
28.    Hopeful
29.    Inspired
30.    Joyful

Read: Words to Use to Express Your Feelings

31.    Joyful
32.    Loved
33.    Peaceful
34.    Peaceful
35.    Pleased

36.    Pleased
37.    Proud
38.    Relieved
39.    Respected
40.    Satisfied

41.    Silly
42.    Valued
43.    Wrapped in love.

Read: Motivational Words List

Words for Happy Feelings

Searching for happy words or positive Words that Express Happiness?  Below is a list of happy words or a list of positive words that express happiness.

Positive Words that Express Happiness

1. Accepted
2. Acclaimed
3. Accomplish
4. Achievement
5. Action
6. Active
7. Admire
8. Adorable
9. Adventure
10. Affirmative
11. Affluent
12. Agree
13. Agreeable
14. Amazing
15. Angelic
16. Beaming
17. Beautiful
18. Believe
19. Beneficial
20. Bliss
21. Bountiful
22. Bounty
23. Brave
24. Bravo
25. Brilliant
26. Calm
27. Celebrated
28. Certain
29. Champ
30. champion
31. Charming
32. Cheery
33. Choice
34. Classic
35. Classical
36. Clean
37. Commend
38. Composed
39. Congratulation
40. Cool
41. Creative
42. Cute
43. Dazzling
44. Delight
45. Delightful
46. Distinguished
47. Divine
48. effective
49. effervescent
50. Efficient
51. Effortless
52. Electrifying
53. elegant
54. enchanting
55. Encouraging
56. Endorsed
57. Energetic
58. Energized
59. Engaging
60. Enthusiastic
61. Essential
62. Esteemed
63. Ethical
64. Excellent
65. Exciting
66. Exquisite
67. Fabulous
68. Fair
69. Familiar
70. Famous
71. Fantastic
72. Favorable
73. Fetching
74. Fine
75. Fitting
76. Flourishing
77. Fortunate

Read: Positive Words to Describe Someone

More Positive Words that Express Happiness

1. Free
2. Fresh
3. Friendly
4. Fun
5. Funny
6. Generous
7. Genius
8. Genuine
9. Giving
10. Glamorous
11. Glowing
12. Good
13. Gorgeous
14. Graceful
15. Great
16. Green
17. Grin
18. Growing
19. Handsome
20. Happy
21. Harmonious
22. Healing
23. Healthy
24. hearty
25. Heavenly
26. Honest
27. Honorable
28. Honored
29. Hug
30. Idea
31. Ideal
32. imaginative
33. Imagine
34. Impressive
35. Independent
36. Innovate
37. Innovative
38. Instant
39. Instantaneous
40. Instinctive
41. Intellectual
42. Intelligent
43. Intuitive
44. Inventive
45. jovial
46. Jubilant
47. Learned
48. Legendary
49. Light
50. lovely
51. Lucid
52. Lucky
53. Luminous
54. Outrageous
55. paradise
56. perfect
57. phenomenal
58. Pleasant
59. pleasurable
60. Plentiful
61. Poised
62. Polished
63. Popular
64. Positive
65. Powerful
66. Prepared
67. Pretty
68. Productive
69. Prominent
70. Protected
71. Proud
72. Safe
73. Satisfactory
74. Secure
75. Seemly
76. Simple
77. Skilled
78. Skillful
79. Smile
80. Smiling Woman Outdoors
81. Soulful
82. Sparkling
83. Special
84. Spirited
85. Spiritual
86. Stirring
87. Stunning
88. Stupendous
89. Success
90. Successful
91. Sunny
92. super
93. Superb
94. Supporting
95. Surprising
96. Welcome
97. Well
98. Whole
99. Wholesome
100. Willing
101. Wonderful
102. Worthy.

Read: Words Can’t Express My Feelings for You

General FAQ

What words describe happiness?

Joy, bliss, felicity, gleefulness, pleasance, glee, cheerfulness, joyfulness, jubilation

What’s another word for feeling happy?

Joyous, blissful, delighted, glad, joyful, overjoyed, jubilant, rejoicing

What are synonyms for happy?

Joyous, Cheerful, contented, Ecstatic, Elated, Glad, Delighted, Joyful, Pleased

Writing words to express happiness and excitement can be a challenge if you don’t have the right words. These words to describe happy feelings will enable you to find good happy feelings words to use.

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