felicific

as in joyous

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Adjective
  • The unrelenting, excessive applause isn’t just joyous.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
  • Amber Heard is celebrating a joyous Mother's Day as a mom of three.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • But cracks in their blissful arrangement form when Vitti meets a fortysomething professor at a chamber music concert and becomes infatuated with him.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 May 2025
  • There is a specific phrase for the blissful drowsiness associated with time spent in a heated box (saunanjälkeinen raukeus) and a specific elf (Saunatonttu) thought to live between a sauna’s wall and heating apparatus.
    Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Jeremy McLennan, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • The buttery-soft jeans are my most comfortable denim, and finding a reliable white pair in the past has often been a struggle.
    Ali Faccenda, People.com, 11 May 2025
  • There’s a lot of writers who aren’t comfortable with that kind of rearranging.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • Buck, too, is looking for a new place, while Eddie is happy to see his son thriving with friends in Los Angeles.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 May 2025
  • People are generally happy to see you and talk with you, regardless of any differences.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • Montecito High School Para-educator Lindsay Swanson, an employee since August 2015, was praised for her passion and dedication while serving with a cheerful and positive demeanor.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
  • The show follows the adventures of José, a cheerful and curious character, along with his best friends —Obi, a playful rabbit, and Kim, a curious monkey.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • But the upcoming project isn't the only thing Raine is glad about these days.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 16 May 2025
  • Some older fans will look at me and be glad that Meredith is also coming back.
    Peter White, Deadline, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • The radical left has become more and more like the characters in a Charles Dickens novel, crammed to the seams with amiable idiots and moral monstrosities.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025
  • Likewise, the amiable relationship between former and sitting presidents shows that if party leaders could overcome partisanship in the name of unity and friendship, so too could other Americans.
    Peter Kastor, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Those proteins—called effectors—attack specific targets that collectively disable the host's defense responses and make the host more hospitable for its bacterial conqueror.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
  • There must be a penalty until the campus is shown to be hospitable to Jewish students.
    Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025
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“Felicific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/felicific. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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