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joy J0068200 (joi)n.1. a. Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.b. An expression of such feeling.2. A source or an object of joy: their only child, their pride and joy.v. joyed, joy·ing, joys Archaic v.intr. To take great pleasure; rejoice.v.tr.1. To fill with ecstatic happiness, pleasure, or satisfaction.2. To enjoy. [Middle English joie, from Old French, from Latin gaudia, pl. of gaudium, joy, from gaudēre, to rejoice; see gāu- in Indo-European roots.]joy (dʒɔɪ) n1. a deep feeling or condition of happiness or contentment2. something causing such a feeling; a source of happiness3. an outward show of pleasure or delight; rejoicing4. informal Brit success; satisfaction: I went to the bank for a loan, but got no joy. vb5. (intr) to feel joy6. (tr) obsolete to make joyful; gladden[C13: from Old French joie, from Latin gaudium joy, from gaudēre to be glad]joy (dʒɔɪ) n. 1. a feeling or state of great delight or happiness; keen pleasure; elation. 2. a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight: a book that was a joy to read. 3. the expression or display of glad feeling; gaiety. v.i. 4. to feel joy; be glad; rejoice. v.t. 5. Obs. to gladden. [1175–1225; < Old French joie, joye < Late Latin gaudia, orig. neuter pl. of Latin gaudium joy =gaud(ēre) to be glad + -ium -ium1] Joy See Also: CONTENTMENT, HAPPINESS, PLEASURE - Agitated with delight as a waving sea —Arabian Nights
- Exhilaration spread through his breast like some pleasurable form of heartburn —Nadine Gordimer
- A joyous feeling … shot up, like the grass in spring —Ivan Turgenev
- (Heart is) as full of sunshine as a hay field —Josh Billings
- Bliss … as though you’d suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle —Katherine Mansfield
The simile sets the mood for one of Mansfield’s best known stories, Bliss. - Ecstacy warm and rich as wine —Harvey Swados
- Elated … like a lion tamer who has at last found the whip crack which will subdue the most ferocious of his big cats —John Mortimer
- Enjoy life like a young porpoise —George Santayana
- Gorged with joy like a pigeon too fat to fly —Marge Piercy
- Great joys, like griefs, are silent —Shackerley Marmion
- Gurgle like a meadowlark —W. P. Kinsella
- Heart … soared like a geyser —William Peden
- Her heart became as light as a bubble —Antonia White
- Joy careens and smashes through them like a speeding car out of control —Irving Feldman
- Joy … felt it rumbling within him like a subterranean river —André Malraux
- Joyful as carollers —David Leavitt
- Joy is like the ague [malaria]; one good day between two bad ones —Danish proverb
- Joy leaping within me … like a trout in a brook —George Garrett
- Joy rises in me like a summer morn —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Joys are bubble-like; what makes them bursts them too —P. J. Bailey
- Joy, simple as the wildflowers —George Garrett
- Joys … like angel visits, short and bright —John Norris
The angel visit comparison has been as effectively linked to goodness and fame. - Joys met by chance … flow for us fresh and strong, like new wine when it gushes from the press —André Gide
- The joys we’ve missed in youth are like … lost umbrellas; we musn’t spend the rest of life wondering where they are —Henry James
- (He is) jubilant as a flag unfurled —Dorothy Parker
- Men without joy seem like corpses —Kaethe Kolwitz
- My heart lifted like a wave —Norman Mailer
- Our joys are about me like a net —Iris Murdoch
- Rose and fell, like a floating swimmer, on easygoing great waves of voluptuous joy —Christina Stead
- A strong exhilaration ran through her like the fumes of wine —Ben Ames Williams
- The sun in my heart comes up like a Javanese orange —Dylan Thomas
- Their joys … ran into each other like water paints mingling to form delicate new colors —Sumner Locke Elliott
- Triumphant as if I’d just hurled a shutout —W. P. Kinsella
The term shutout was particularly appropriate in Kinsella’s baseball novel, Shoeless Joe. Baseball expressions do, however, work well within other contexts. - A wonderful feeling enveloped him, as if light were being shaken about him —John Cheever
joy Past participle: joyed Gerund: joying
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I joy | you joy | he/she/it joys | we joy | you joy | they joy |
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I joyed | you joyed | he/she/it joyed | we joyed | you joyed | they joyed |
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I am joying | you are joying | he/she/it is joying | we are joying | you are joying | they are joying |
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I have joyed | you have joyed | he/she/it has joyed | we have joyed | you have joyed | they have joyed |
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I was joying | you were joying | he/she/it was joying | we were joying | you were joying | they were joying |
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I had joyed | you had joyed | he/she/it had joyed | we had joyed | you had joyed | they had joyed |
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I will joy | you will joy | he/she/it will joy | we will joy | you will joy | they will joy |
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I will have joyed | you will have joyed | he/she/it will have joyed | we will have joyed | you will have joyed | they will have joyed |
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I will be joying | you will be joying | he/she/it will be joying | we will be joying | you will be joying | they will be joying |
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I have been joying | you have been joying | he/she/it has been joying | we have been joying | you have been joying | they have been joying |
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I will have been joying | you will have been joying | he/she/it will have been joying | we will have been joying | you will have been joying | they will have been joying |
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I had been joying | you had been joying | he/she/it had been joying | we had been joying | you had been joying | they had been joying |
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I would joy | you would joy | he/she/it would joy | we would joy | you would joy | they would joy |
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I would have joyed | you would have joyed | he/she/it would have joyed | we would have joyed | you would have joyed | they would have joyed | ThesaurusNoun | 1. | joy - the emotion of great happiness joyfulness, joyousnessemotion - any strong feelinghigh spirits, lightness, elation - a feeling of joy and prideexultation, jubilance, jubilancy, jubilation - a feeling of extreme joyexcitement, exhilaration - the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; "he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed"exuberance - joyful enthusiasmsorrow - an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement; "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss" | | 2. | joy - something or someone that provides a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"delight, pleasurepositive stimulus - a stimulus with desirable consequences | Verb | 1. | joy - feel happiness or joyrejoicechirk up, cheer up, cheer - become cheerfulfeel, experience - undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"gladden - become glad or happybe on cloud nine, exult, jump for joy, walk on air - feel extreme happiness or elation | | 2. | joy - make glad or happygladdenoverjoy - cause to feel extremely joyful or happy; "the economic growth overjoyed the German industry" |
joynoun1. delight, pleasure, triumph, satisfaction, happiness, ecstasy, enjoyment, bliss, transport, euphoria, festivity, felicity, glee, exuberance, rapture, elation, exhilaration, radiance, gaiety, jubilation, hilarity, exaltation, ebullience, exultation, gladness, joyfulness, ravishment Salter shouted with joy. delight despair, grief, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, tribulation2. treasure, wonder, treat, prize, delight, pride, charm, thrill one of the joys of being a chefno joy no luck (Informal) a negative, no result, no success, no satisfaction They expect no joy from the vote itself.Quotations "But headlong joy is ever on the wing" [John Milton The Passion] "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing" [William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida] "Joy cometh in the morning" Bible: Psalms 5joynoun1. A feeling of extreme gratification aroused by something good or desired:delectation, delight, enjoyment, pleasure.2. A condition of supreme well-being and good spirits:beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, felicity, gladness, happiness, joyfulness.verb1. To feel or take joy or pleasure:delight, exult, pleasure, rejoice.2. Archaic. To give great or keen pleasure to:cheer, delight, enchant, gladden, gratify, overjoy, please, pleasure, tickle.Translationsjoy (dʒoi) noun1. great happiness. The children jumped for joy when they saw the new toys. 歡欣 欢乐2. a cause of great happiness. Our son is a great joy to us. 喜悅 喜悦ˈjoyful adjective filled with, showing or causing joy. a joyful mood; joyful faces/news. 快樂的,令人高興的 高兴的ˈjoyfully adverb 快樂地,令人高興地 高兴地ˈjoyfulness noun 高興 高兴ˈjoyous adjective joyful. 高興的 高兴的ˈjoyously adverb 快樂地 快乐地joy See:- a bundle of joy
- a joy to behold
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever
- be full of the joys of spring
- bundle of joy
- burst with (an emotion)
- burst with joy
- full of the joys of spring
- have any joy
- joy dust
- joy flakes
- joy juice
- joy of missing out
- joy ride
- joy water
- jump for joy
- leap for joy
- no joy
- no joy in Mudville
- pride and joy
- pride and joy, one's
- thing of beauty (is a joy forever), a
- weep for joy
- wish (one) joy
- wish someone joy
- your pride and joy
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Joy (language)A functional programming language by Manfred vonThun. Joy is unusual because it is not based on lambda calculus, but on the composition of functions. Functionstake a stack as argument, consume any number of parametersfrom it, and return it with any number of results on it. Theconcatenation of programs denotes the composition offunctions. One of the datatypes of Joy is that of quotedprograms, of which lists are a special case.
Joy Home.JoySee also Gaiety, Happiness.Autebfemale personification of gladness. [Egypt. Myth.: Jobes, 159]blue bird, thesymbolizes happiness sought by two poor children. [Belg. Lit.: The Blue Bird; Haydn & Fuller, 94]cinquefoilindicates gladness. [Flower Symbolism and Heraldry: Jobes, 341]Euphrosyneone of Graces; name means ‘festivity.’ [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 96]gold on redsymbol of felicity and joy. [Chinese Art: Jobes, 357]Hathorcow-headed goddess of joy and love. [Egypt. Myth.: Leach, 484]Hyperboreansblissful race lived beyond the North Wind in a region of perpetual Spring. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 476]myrrhsymbol of gladness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 176]red on greensymbol of felicity and joy. [Chinese Art: Jobes, 357]Rubaiyat, Theseries of poems celebrating hedonism as a way of life. [Br. Poetry: Benét, 881]wood sorrelindicates gladness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]JOY
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Synonyms for joynoun delightSynonyms- delight
- pleasure
- triumph
- satisfaction
- happiness
- ecstasy
- enjoyment
- bliss
- transport
- euphoria
- festivity
- felicity
- glee
- exuberance
- rapture
- elation
- exhilaration
- radiance
- gaiety
- jubilation
- hilarity
- exaltation
- ebullience
- exultation
- gladness
- joyfulness
- ravishment
Antonyms- despair
- grief
- misery
- sorrow
- unhappiness
- tribulation
noun treasureSynonyms- treasure
- wonder
- treat
- prize
- delight
- pride
- charm
- thrill
phrase no joySynonyms- no luck
- a negative
- no result
- no success
- no satisfaction
Synonyms for joynoun a feeling of extreme gratification aroused by something good or desiredSynonyms- delectation
- delight
- enjoyment
- pleasure
noun a condition of supreme well-being and good spiritsSynonyms- beatitude
- blessedness
- bliss
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- felicity
- gladness
- happiness
- joyfulness
verb to feel or take joy or pleasureSynonyms- delight
- exult
- pleasure
- rejoice
verb to give great or keen pleasure toSynonyms- cheer
- delight
- enchant
- gladden
- gratify
- overjoy
- please
- pleasure
- tickle
Synonyms for joynoun the emotion of great happinessSynonymsRelated Words- emotion
- high spirits
- lightness
- elation
- exultation
- jubilance
- jubilancy
- jubilation
- excitement
- exhilaration
- exuberance
Antonymsnoun something or someone that provides a source of happinessSynonymsRelated Wordsverb feel happiness or joySynonymsRelated Words- chirk up
- cheer up
- cheer
- feel
- experience
- gladden
- be on cloud nine
- exult
- jump for joy
- walk on air
verb make glad or happySynonymsRelated Words |