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joyful
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experiencing pleasure, satisfaction, or delight the news of the child's safe return made us all joyful Synonyms of joyful blissful, chuffed [British], delighted, gratified, happy, glad, joyous, pleased, satisfied, thankful, tickledWords Related to joyful beaming, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, gay, gladsome, lighthearted, sunny, upbeat; gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merry, mirthful, smiling; beatific, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, intoxicated, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical); exuberant, exultant, jubilant, rapt, rejoicing, thrilled; hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguineNear Antonyms of joyful abject, aggrieved, anguished, blue, brokenhearted, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, melancholy; doleful, dolorous, lachrymose, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, sorry, woeful; black, dark, desolate, dispirited, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), grieved, heartbroken, heartsick, miserable, woebegone, wretchedAntonyms of joyful displeased, dissatisfied, joyless, sad, unhappy, unpleased, unsatisfied
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