Synonyms for joy
dʒɔɪjoy

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1. joynoun

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   They will be a source of strength and joy in your life.

   Antonyms:
   joylessness, unhappiness, infelicity

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1. joy

   Gratification is the giving any mental or physical desire something that it craves; satisfaction is the giving such a desire all that it craves. Happiness is the positively agreeable experience that springs from the possession of good, the gratification or satisfaction of the desires or the relief from pain and evil. Comfort may be almost wholly negative, being found in security or relief from that which pains or annoys; there is comfort by a warm fireside on a wintry night; the sympathy of a true friend affords comfort in sorrow. Enjoyment is more positive, always implying something to be definitely and consciously delighted in; a sick person finds comfort in relief from pain, while he may be far from a state of enjoyment. Pleasure is still more vivid, being an arousing of the faculties to an intensely agreeable activity; satisfaction is more tranquil than pleasure, being the agreeable consciousness of having all that our faculties demand or crave; when a worthy pleasure is past, a worthy satisfaction remains. As referring to a mental state, gratification is used to denote a mild form of happiness resulting from some incident not of very great importance; satisfaction should properly express a happiness deeper, more complete, and more abiding; but as intellect or sensibilities of a low order may find satisfaction in that which is very poor or unworthy, the word has come to be feeble and tame in ordinary use. Happiness is more positive than comfort, enjoyment, or satisfaction, more serene and rational than pleasure; pleasure is of necessity transient; happiness is abiding, and may be eternal; thus, we speak of pleasures, but the plural of happiness is scarcely used. Happiness, in the full sense, is mental or spiritual or both, and is viewed as resulting from some worthy gratification or satisfaction; we may speak of a brute as experiencing comfort or pleasure, but scarcely as in possession of happiness; we speak of vicious pleasure, delight, or joy, but not of vicious happiness. Felicity is a philosophical term, colder and more formal than happiness. Gladness is happiness that overflows, expressing itself in countenance, voice, manner, and action. Joy is more intense than happiness, deeper than gladness, to which it is akin, nobler and more enduring than pleasure. Gaiety is more superficial than joy, more demonstrative than gladness. Rejoicing is happiness or joy that finds utterance in word, song, festivity, etc. Delight is vivid, overflowing happiness of a somewhat transient kind; ecstasy is a state of extreme or extravagant delight so that the one affected by it seems almost beside himself with joy; rapture is closely allied to ecstasy, but is more serene, exalted, and enduring. Triumph is such joy as results from victory, success, achievement. Blessedness is at once the state and the sense of being divinely blessed; as, the blessedness of the righteous. Bliss is ecstatic, perfected happiness; as, the bliss of heaven. Compare COMFORT.

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   Synonyms:
   blessedness, bliss, cheer, comfort, contentment, delight, ecstasy, enjoyment, felicity, gaiety, gladness, gratification, happiness, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rapture, rejoicing, satisfaction, triumph

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1. joy

   Synonyms:
   gladness, pleasure, delight, happiness, exultation, transport, felicity, ecstasy, rapture, bites, gaiety, mirth, merriment, festivity, hilarity

   Antonyms:
   sorrow, pain, trouble, misery, melancholy, grief, affliction, tears, depression, despondency, despair

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. joy, joyousness, joyfulnessnoun

   the emotion of great happiness

   Synonyms:
   joyousness, delight, pleasure, joyfulness

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

2. joy, delight, pleasureverb

   something or someone that provides a source of happiness

   "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"

   Synonyms:
   joyousness, pleasance, delectation, delight, pleasure, joyfulness

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

3. rejoice, joyverb

   feel happiness or joy

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

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

4. gladden, joyverb

   make glad or happy

   Synonyms:
   gladden, rejoice

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

Matched Categories

1. • Emotion
   • Feel

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1. joynoun

   Synonyms:
   gladness, delight, glee, exultation, ecstasy, rapture, ravishment, transport, beatitude, beatification

2. joynoun

   Synonyms:
   happiness, felicity, bliss

3. joynoun

   Synonyms:
   cause of gladness

4. joyverb

   Synonyms:
   exult, rejoice, be glad, be delighted, be joyful

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1. joynoun

   Synonyms:
   gladness, exultation, jubilation, mirth, festivity glee, elation, merriment

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1. List of paraphrases for "joy":

   delight, happiness, pleasure, gioia, alegría, rejoicing, gladness, farah, glee, jubilation, cheer, hei, fun, excitement

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How to use joy in a sentence?

1. Henry David Thoreau:

   If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.

2. Pete Buttigieg:

   Even as we shiver, there is joy, are you ready to go in that hall and leave no question about who has the momentum right now?

3. Dan Radcliffe:

   You would see him get slightly, not annoyed but like, when someone didnt clear a board or theres still a few questions left or when no one really would up with much money because no one had done really well, he would just say, Okay well well come back for Double Jeopardy after the break and Im sure well all do better then. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP You could tell he loved seeing people who are really smart do well and that is the essential joy of a quiz show.

4. Kim Manlove:

   We not only honor his struggle, but we honor his life, and we continue to celebrate it in wonderful ways that keep him close to us in ways we could never have possibly imagined, finally, today I have hope, joy and gratitude for the continued presence of my son who has, and is, showing me not only the path for recovery from my own addiction but to new understandings and appreciation of life.

5. Christi Haizlip:

   I have worked with children for a long time. So her story had an impact on me, i know how much joy my dogs bring to me every day, and I wanted to share Christi Haizlip with her.