joy Noun
A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
- a child's joy on Christmas morning
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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
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Anything that causes such a feeling.
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* Bible, 1 Thess. ii. 20
- Ye are our glory and joy .
* Keats
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
(obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
* Spenser
- Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
* Dryden
- The roofs with joy resound.
Antonyms
* (feeling of happiness) infelicity, joylessness, unhappiness, unjoy
Derived terms
* bundle of joy
* cocky's joy
* enjoy
* joyance
* joyful
* joygasm
* joyless
* joyous
* joy ride
* joystick
* jump for joy
* killjoy
* no joy
* overjoy
* traveller's joy
* unjoy
Verb
( en verb)
To feel joy, to rejoice.
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*:for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the good man to god
*1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
*:I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for him possessed my whole heart.
(archaic) To enjoy.
*1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.2:
*:For from the time that Scudamour her bought, / In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day.
*Milton
*:Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.
(obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
*Dryden
*:Joy us of our conquest.
*Prior
*:To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.
(obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
*Shakespeare
*:Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.
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contentment Noun
( en-noun)
the state or degree of being contented
* 1908 ,
- Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy and contentment.
happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
the neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
Antonyms
* discontentment
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