Synonyms of rejoicing

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adjective

as in triumphant

having or expressing feelings of joy or triumph

the rejoicing parents of the bride

Synonyms & Similar Words

• triumphant
• proud
• ecstatic
• jubilant
• exultant
• exulting
• glorying
• arrogant
• crowing
• victorious
• prideful
• crank
• elated
• euphoric
• cock-a-hoop
• boastful
• winning
• conquering
• cocky

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• defeated
• depressed
• disconsolate
• downcast
• dejected
• dispirited
• crestfallen

rejoicing

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noun

as in festivity

joyful or festive activity

there was great rejoicing at the launch party for the book

Synonyms & Similar Words

• festivity
• celebration
• cheerfulness
• merrymaking
• gayety
• merriment
• revelry
• jollification
• joy
• cheer
• revelling
• jollity
• festival
• fun
• reveling
• enjoyment
• gaiety
• conviviality
• delight
• entertainment
• glee
• whoopee
• happiness
• mirth
• riot
• pleasure
• funning
• hilarity
• merriness
• mischief
• revel
• carouse
• carousal
• diversion
• carnival
• joviality
• joking
• recreation
• cheeriness
• romping
• rollicking
• gleefulness
• playfulness
• mirthfulness
• frolicking
• lark
• frivolity
• party
• romp
• jesting
• jocularity
• levity
• frolic
• flippancy
• buffoonery
• gamboling
• spree
• gambolling
• lightheartedness
• binge
• fling
• gambol
• rollick
• joshing
• zaniness
• clownishness
• clownery

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• mourning
• grief
• misery
• woe
• gloom
• darkness
• heartache
• heartbreak
• blackness
• wretchedness
• sorrow
• gloominess
• dolor
• melancholy
• unhappiness
• mournfulness
• heartsickness
• dejection
• glumness
• depression
• miserableness
• despondency
• dumps
• dolefulness
• doldrums
• joylessness
• despondence
• forlornness
• disconsolateness
• downheartedness
• dispiritedness

rejoicing

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verb

present participle of rejoice

1

as in delighting

to feel or express joy or triumph

rejoiced over our unexpected victory on the soccer field

Synonyms & Similar Words

• delighting
• joying
• exulting
• glorying
• triumphing
• bragging
• jubilating
• crowing
• gloating
• exuberating
• kvelling
• swelling
• boasting
• kicking up one's heels
• flaunting
• preening
• parading
• strutting
• swaggering
• showing off

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• weeping
• grieving
• lamenting
• regretting
• bewailing
• bemoaning

2

as in pleasing

to give satisfaction to

news of the enemy's surrender rejoiced a nation weary of war

Synonyms & Similar Words

• delighting
• pleasing
• feasting
• satisfying
• warming
• gladdening
• gratifying
• thrilling
• amusing
• contenting
• entertaining
• agreeing (with)
• tickling
• suiting
• pleasuring
• soothing
• appeasing
• gladding
• gassing
• exciting
• comforting
• placating
• calming
• quenching
• pacifying
• mollifying
• charming
• satiating
• assuaging
• captivating
• titillating
• galvanizing
• treating
• sating
• diverting
• pampering
• indulging
• spoiling
• catering (to)
• humoring
• coddling
• mollycoddling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• getting
• crossing
• bothering
• displeasing
• aggravating
• irritating
• chafing
• exasperating
• annoying
• bugging
• vexing
• ruffling
• grating
• nettling
• irking
• perturbing
• galling
• putting out
• maddening
• infuriating
• rousing
• enraging
• angering
• rankling
• provoking
• outraging
• riling
• roiling
• piquing
• inflaming
• incensing
• fretting
• upsetting
• distressing
• disturbing
• agitating
• steaming up
• peeving
• enflaming
• harassing
• insulting
• harrying
• pestering
• offending
• affronting