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Definition of Joyous
1. Adjective. Full of or characterized by joy. "Joyous laughter"
Similar to: Ecstatic, Enraptured, Rapt, Rapturous, Rhapsodic, Elated, Gleeful, Joyful, Jubilant, Festal, Festive, Gay, Merry, Gay, Jocund, Jolly, Jovial, Merry, Mirthful
Derivative terms: Joy, Joyousness
Antonyms: Joyless
Definition of Joyous
1. a. Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.
Definition of Joyous
1. Adjective. Full of joy; happy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Joyous
1. joyful [adj] : JOYOUSLY [adv] - See also: joyful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Joyous
Literary usage of Joyous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"And or ever the knights depart, look thou make there a cry, in hearing of all
the knights, that there is one knight in the joyous Isle, that is the Castle ..."
2. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"All darkly, like a torrent's roll, It swept be-fore my sight— Unheard the joyous
melody, Unseen the golden light. And they who sang the song of love Beneath ..."
3. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"From his mother, it appears, he inherits this joyous temperament, and also his
musical ability.' His father passed on to his son a keen brain and an ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... the point rush'd joyous through, 800 Grazing the bone ; his life his Father
saved. And straight the godlike Chieftain's noble train 'Gan draw him from ..."
5. The Planter: Or, Thirteen Years in the South by David Brown (1853)
"But not so much of the contentment of the slave, as his pleasure—his joyous
pleasure,—something of a higher order than mere contentment, am I now to speak. ..."
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