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| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high spirits, satisfaction |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, content, contentment, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good humor, hilarity, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven*, vivacity, well-being, cheeriness, delectation, good cheer, good spirits, hopefulness, joviality, playfulness |
| Antonyms: | depression, gloom, misery, pain, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
hopeful, light, Abderian, airy, all alive, allegro, animated, blithe, blithesome, bonny, bright, brisk, brisk as a bee, buoyant, buxom, canty, cardiac, cardiacal, cheerful, cheering, cheerly, cheery, cock, elate, elated, essorant, exhilarating, exultant, exulting, flushed, free and easy, frisky, frolicsome, full of play, full of spirit, gamesome, gay as a lark, gelastic, gelogenic, gleesome, happy, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, heartsome, hilarious, in good spirits, in high feather, in high spirits, in spirits, inspiriting, janty, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jolly as a sand boy, jolly as a thrush, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughable, laughing, laughter, lively, merry, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage, mirthful, mirthloving, of good cheer, ovant, palmy, playful, playful as a kitten, playsome, pleasing, rattling, ready to burst with laughter, ready to die with laughter, ready to split with laughter, rejoicing, rident, ridibund, risible, risorial, rollicking, smiling, sparkling, spirited, spiritful, sportive, sprightful, sprightly, spry, subrident, subrisive, sunny, tricksy, triumphant, unsoulclogged, vivacious, waggish, winsome
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| Main Entry: | beatitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blessedness |
| Synonyms: | bliss, ecstasy, felicity, happiness, peace, serenity |
| Main Entry: | bliss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ecstasy |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, cool*, euphoria, felicity, gladness, gone*, happiness, heaven*, joy, paradise, rapture |
| Antonyms: | grief, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ecstasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bliss |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, cool*, delight, delirium, ebullience, elation, enchantment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, felicity, fervor, frenzy, gladness, happiness, heaven, inspiration, intoxication, joy, paradise, rapture, seventh heaven*, trance, transport, twilight zone*, delectation, joyfulness, ravishment, rhapsody |
| Notes: | enstasy means 'to stand inside the self'; ecstasy means 'to stand outside the ordinary self' |
| Antonyms: | despair, sorrow, torment, trouble, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
| Synonyms: | affect, affection, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, warmth, zeal, affectivity, excitability, responsiveness, sensitiveness, vibes |
| Antonyms: | physicality |
| Main Entry: | exultation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, reveling |
| Synonyms: | delight, elation, glee, glory, happiness, joy, jubilation, merriment, rejoicing, satisfaction, transport, triumph, crowing, gloating, high spirits, joyousness, jubilance |
| Antonyms: | discouragement |
| Main Entry: | festivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, revelry |
| Synonyms: | amusement, bash*, blowout*, carousal*, conviviality, do*, entertainment, festival, fun, gaiety, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, jamboree, jollity, levity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, party, pleasure, revel, shindig*, sport, clambake, fun and games, joviality, joyfulness, reveling, revelment, whoopee, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | geniality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme niceness |
| Synonyms: | amenity, cheerfulness, conviviality, cordiality, friendliness, gladness, good nature, happiness, jollity, joy, kindness, mirth, sweetness and light, warmth, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, cheeriness, congenialness, enjoyableness, good cheer, gratefulness, heartiness, joviality, joyousness, kindliness, pleasance, pleasantness, sunniness, warmheartedness |
| Antonyms: | coolness, irritation, unhappiness, aloofness, coldness, moodiness, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | heaven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where God lives; wonderful feeling |
| Synonyms: | Shangri-la*, Utopia, atmosphere, azure*, beyond, bliss, dreamland, ecstasy, empyrean, enchantment, eternity, felicity, firmament, glory, happiness, happy hunting ground*, harmony, hereafter, immortality, kingdom, kingdom come, nirvana, paradise, promised land*, rapture, sky*, transport, upstairs, Arcadia, Canaan, Elysium, Zion, afterworld, eternal home, eternal rest, fairyland, great unknown, heights, life everlasting, life to come, next world, pearly gates, the blue, wonderland |
| Antonyms: | hell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | joie de vivre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cheerfulness |
| Synonyms: | delight, enjoyment, gaiety, happiness, joy, lightheartedness, merriment, gladsomeness, high spirits, joviality, joyfulness, joyousness, love of life, molliness, spiritedness |
| Antonyms: | depression, sobriety |
| Main Entry: | levity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funniness, silliness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, festivity, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, happiness, hilarity, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic*, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, volatility, wit, facetiousness, fickleness, giddiness, high spirits, jocularity, laughs, triviality |
| Antonyms: | gravity, seriousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | merriment/merrymaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enjoyment, amusement |
| Synonyms: | brawl, cheerfulness, conviviality, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, glee, happiness, hilarity, hoopla*, indulgence, jollity, joy, laughter, levity, liveliness, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, buffoonery, fun and games, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, laughs, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, sorrow, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great joy |
| Synonyms: | amusement, cheer, cheerfulness, entertainment, festivity, frivolity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, hysteria, jollity, laughter, levity, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, pleasure, rejoicing, revelry, sport, convulsions, hysterics, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, joyousness, kicks, laughs, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | blues, depression, distress, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | nirvana |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enlightenment |
| Synonyms: | awakening, bliss, cloud nine*, ecstasy, happiness, heaven, joy, paradise, peace, serenity, tranquillity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | optimism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of having positive beliefs |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, assurance, brightness, buoyancy, calmness, certainty, cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, easiness, elation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exhilaration, expectation, happiness, rose-colored glasses*, trust, good cheer, hopefulness, idealism, looking on bright side, positivism, sanguineness, sureness |
| Antonyms: | doubt, gloom, pessimism, hopelessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remedy, aid; relaxation |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix*, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
| Antonyms: | damage, hurt, injury, pain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | satisfaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving or enjoying a state of comfort, content |
| Synonyms: | achievement, amends, amusement, atonement, bliss, cheerfulness, comfort, compensation, complacency, contentment, delight, ease, enjoyment, fulfillment, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, joy, justice, peace of mind, pleasure, pride, recompense, redress, refreshment, reimbursement, relief, reparation, resolution, reward, serenity, settlement, vindication, well-being, conciliation, contentedness, good fortune, indemnification, propitiation, repletion, satiety |
| Antonyms: | discontent, dissatisfaction, need, unhappiness, want |
| Main Entry: | success |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favorable outcome |
| Synonyms: | éclat, Easy Street*, accomplishment, achievement, advance, arrival, ascendancy, attainment, bed of roses*, benefit, boom*, consummation, eminence, fame, flying colors*, fortune, fruition, gain, good luck*, gravy train*, happiness, hit, killing, profit, progress, prosperity, realization, reward, savvy, sensation, snap, strike, triumph, victory, walkaway*, win, big hit, clover, do well, good times, grand slam, happy days, lap of luxury, laugher, maturation, successfulness, walkover |
| Antonyms: | failure, loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | welfare/well-being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | health and prosperity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, advantage, benefit, contentment, ease, easy street*, euphoria, felicity, good, happiness, interest, luck, profit, progress, satisfaction, success, thriving, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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