Synonyms of joy

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noun

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

• happiness
• bliss
• blissfulness
• joyfulness
• enjoyment
• pleasure
• gladness
• beatitude
• delight
• blessedness
• satisfaction
• ecstasy
• felicity
• elation
• exultation
• warm fuzzies
• glee
• exhilaration
• comfort
• euphoria
• rapture
• cheerfulness
• mirth
• joyousness
• exuberance
• jubilation
• gayety
• intoxication
• high
• triumph
• glory
• ravishment
• gratification
• transport
• nirvana
• lightheartedness
• seventh heaven
• jollity
• paradise
• elatedness
• contentedness
• jubilance
• heaven
• merriness
• delectation
• gleefulness
• rapturousness
• gaiety
• cheer
• content
• jocundity
• gladsomeness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sadness
• misery
• unhappiness
• sorrow
• calamity
• wretchedness
• anguish
• agony
• woe
• desolation
• melancholy
• sufferance
• depression
• gloom
• dejection
• blues
• joylessness
• ill-being
• despondency
• gloominess
• hell
• doldrums
• woefulness
• mournfulness
• cheerlessness
• purgatory
• plaintiveness
• disheartenment
• desolateness
• downheartedness
• dispiritedness
• Gehenna

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
• kick
• fun
• delectation
• diversion
• entertainment
• manna
• gas
• recreation
• gratification
• solace
• indulgence
• ambrosia

joy

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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
• rejoice
• brag
• exuberate
• jubilate
• kvell
• crow
• gloat
• swell
• kick up one's heels
• boast
• parade
• flaunt
• preen
• show off
• swagger
• strut

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• regret
• weep
• grieve
• lament
• bewail
• bemoan