Joyous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Joyous \Joy"ous\, a. [OE. joyous, joious, joios, F. joyeux.See
     {Joy}.]
     Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy;
     with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Is this your joyous city?                --Is. xxiii.
                                                    7.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           They all as glad as birds of joyous prime. --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           And joyous of our conquest early won.    --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Merry; lively; blithe; gleeful; gay; glad; mirthful;
          sportive; festive; joyful; happy; blissful; charming;
          delightful. -- {Joy"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ous*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  joyous
       adj 1: full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"
              [ant: {joyless}]
       2: full of or suggesting exultant happiness; "a joyful heart";
          "a joyful occasion"; "the joyous news"; "joyous laughter"
          [syn: {joyful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "joyous":
     animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, buxom,
     capering, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chirping, convivial, dancing,
     ecstatic, encouraging, enlivening, exhilarating, festal, festive,
     flushed with joy, frivolous, gala, gay, glad, gladdening, gladsome,
     gleeful, glowing, happy, heart-warming, heartening, hilarious,
     inspiring, inspiriting, invigorating, jocular, jocund, jolly,
     jovial, joyful, laughing, laughter-loving, leaping, lighthearted,
     merry, merrymaking, mirth-loving, mirthful, on the loose, purring,
     radiant, rapturous, rejoicing, risible, singing, smiling, smirking,
     sparkling, starry-eyed, thrice happy, transported