Thesaurus
rejoicing
Synonyms and Antonyms of rejoicing
- the rejoicing parents of the bride
cock-a-hoop, crank [chiefly dialect], crowing, exultant, exulting, glorying, jubilant, prideful, proud, triumphant
rejoicing
Synonyms and Antonyms of rejoicing
- there was great rejoicing at the launch party for the book
conviviality, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, reveling (or revelling), revelry, whoopee
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
binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, spree
buffoonery, clownery, clownishness, flippancy, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness, zaniness
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
Synonyms and Antonyms of rejoicing
- rejoiced over our unexpected victory on the soccer field
- news of the enemy's surrender rejoiced a nation weary of war
agreeing (with), contenting, delighting, feasting, gassing [slang], gladdening, gladding [archaic], gratifying, pleasing, pleasuring, satisfying, suiting, warming
aggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, crossing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, perturbing, piquing, putting out, ruffling, vexing
angering, enraging, incensing, inflaming (also enflaming), infuriating, maddening, outraging, rankling, riling, roiling, steaming up
agitating, distressing, disturbing, fretting, upsetting
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