Antonyms for rejoice
rɪˈdʒɔɪsre·joice

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1. rejoice

   Antonyms:
   bemoan, bewail, deplore, grieve, lament, mourn, regret, rue, sorrow

   Synonyms:
   be joyful, exult, joy, make merry, triumph

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1. rejoice

   Antonyms:
   mourn, grieve, lament, weep, sorrow, repent, trouble, afflict, oppress, weary, depress, disappoint, burden, darken, distress, pain, sadden, vex, annoy

   Synonyms:
   delight, glory, exult, joy, triumph, gladden, delight, revel, be glad, cheer, please, enliven, gratify

Matched Categories

1. • Cheer
   • Feel

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1. rejoice, joyverb

   feel happiness or joy

   Synonyms:
   gladden, jubilate, wallow, exuberate, exult, joy, triumph

2. exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph, jubilateverb

   to express great joy

   "Who cannot exult in Spring?"

   Synonyms:
   exult, jump for joy, jubilate, crow, gloat, wallow, walk on air, exuberate, be on cloud nine, prevail, joy, triumph

3. wallow, rejoice, triumphverb

   be ecstatic with joy

   Synonyms:
   jubilate, crow, gloat, wallow, exuberate, exult, prevail, joy, triumph, billow, welter

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1. rejoiceverb

   Synonyms:
   glory, exult, gladden, cheer, delight, please, exhilarate

How to use rejoice in a sentence?

1. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Only once in a while you become aware of your intrinsic nature, with sudden bursts of empty spaces, without any effort on your part, you come home, rejoice every breath so deep and so soothing, you relax, unfocused, you skip into timelessness. This is the greatest mystery, the greatest gift of existence, without any identification to your senses, no clutches of your old patterns of mind. Few Glimpses of Heaven on the earth! I have experienced, have you?

2. Mark Twain:

   Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

3. Marcel Hirscher:

   I didn’t have the choice. I needed to finish first or second to beat Felix. So the tactics were pretty simple, felix and I are very good friends and that’s why I can’t rejoice completely. It’s the third time I took the cup away from him under his nose.

4. Winston Churchill:

   I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

5. Thessalonians 516,18 Bible:

   Rejoice evermore. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

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