Synonyms of overjoyed

overjoyed

adjective

as in delighted

filled with great joy

She was overjoyed to see her sister again.

They weren't overjoyed at the idea of working together.

I'm overjoyed that you can come to my party.

Related Words

• delighted
• happy
• thrilled
• ecstatic
• amused
• blessed
• jubilant
• hopeful
• joyous
• joyful
• elated
• enraptured
• exultant
• exuberant
• laughing
• euphoric
• rapturous
• gleeful
• blissful
• exhilarated
• smiling
• radiant
• merry
• jovial
• jolly
• amusing
• festive
• mirthful
• tickled
• ravished
• cheerful
• entranced
• gladsome
• jocular
• cheery
• blithe
• sunny
• carefree
• upbeat
• giggling
• high
• buoyant
• gay
• beaming
• lighthearted
• jocund
• blithesome
• joking
• spirited
• jocose
• hilarious
• perky
• vivacious
• chuckling
• chipper
• frisky
• optimistic
• playful
• funny
• bouncing
• unconcerned
• sprightly
• animated
• peppy
• lively
• flippant
• witty
• jaunty
• bright
• facetious
• easygoing
• cavalier
• frolicsome
• sportive
• rosy
• sprightful
• sanguine
• insouciant
• lightsome
• zippy
• riotous
• uproarious
• humorous
• jesting
• comic
• farcical
• comical
• happy-go-lucky
• joshing
• antic
• devil-may-care
• sidesplitting

Dissimilar Words

• sad
• unhappy
• depressed
• aggrieved
• saddened
• heartbroken
• blue
• dejected
• crying
• crestfallen
• disheartened
• anguished
• sorrowful
• dispirited
• despondent
• disconsolate
• downcast
• forlorn
• abject
• glum
• melancholy
• brokenhearted
• weeping
• wailing
• sobbing
• disgruntled
• sorry
• discontented
• heartsick
• downhearted
• moody
• mournful
• heavyhearted
• doleful
• low-spirited
• joyless
• woeful
• dark
• gloomy
• lugubrious
• plaintive
• gray
• dismal
• sullen
• bleak
• depressing
• miserable
• somber
• desolate
• dreary
• cheerless
• groaning
• moaning
• lachrymose
• morose
• dolorous
• wretched
• comfortless
• saturnine
• woebegone
• sluggish
• dull
• lethargic
• listless
• torpid

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of overjoyed

Rather than feeling overjoyed, Tajik felt overwhelmed. — Santa Ana College, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026

Potkin said Mejia was overjoyed to leave jail, but even more so to spend the night with the daughters from whom she was separated in 2005 when she was wrongfully convicted of murder in the scalding death of an infant two years earlier. — Austin Sanders, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026

Rausch then gave the bag — a burgundy Hermès Togo Birkin 30 with gold hardware — to an overjoyed Higgins. — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026

Julie is overjoyed to discover that Hedda and George may soon be having a baby and promises to check in on them daily. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026