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

The New York Knicks are going to the NBA Finals, and New Yorkers are overjoyed — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani. — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 26 May 2026

Also, the festivalgoers just seemed so overjoyed and radiant to be back at this annual Memorial Day weekend event, which runs through May 24 at the Napa Valley Expo in downtown Napa. — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 23 May 2026

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