rejoicing

having or expressing feelings of joy or triumph the rejoicing parents of the bride Synonyms cock-a-hoop, crank [chiefly dialect], crowing, exulting, glorying, jubilant, prideful, proud, exultant, triumphantRelated Words ecstatic, elated, euphoric; arrogant, boastful, cocky; conquering, victorious, winningNear Antonyms crestfallen, defeated, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited, downcast

joyful or festive activity there was great rejoicing at the launch party for the book Synonyms conviviality, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, reveling (or revelling), revelry, whoopeeRelated Words carousal, carouse; delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, mischief, pleasure, recreation, riot; cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, joviality, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness; carnival, celebration, festival, party, revel; frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping; enjoyment, happiness, joy; binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, spree; buffoonery, clownery, clownishness, flippancy, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness, zaninessNear Antonyms blackness, darkness, dolefulness, dolor, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartsickness, miserableness, misery, mournfulness, mourning, woe, wretchedness; dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dumps, forlornness, joylessness, melancholy, sorrow, unhappiness