| Main Entry: | joyful/joyous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
Synonyms: |
blithesome, cheerful, cheery, delighted, ecstatic, effervescent, elated, enjoyable, enraptured, expansive, festive, flying*, gay, glad, gladsome, gratified, heartening, high as a kite, high*, jubilant, lighthearted, merry, overjoyed, pleased, pleasurable, popping, rapturous, satisfied, sunny*, sunny-side up, transported, upbeat |
Antonyms: |
sad, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful |
| Main Entry: | joyful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
Synonyms: |
blithesome, cheerful, cheery, delighted, doing handsprings, ecstatic, effervescent, elated, enjoyable, enraptured, expansive, festive, flipping, flying, gay, glad, gladsome, gratified, heartening, high, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, jubilant, lighthearted, merry, overjoyed, pleased, pleasurable, popping, rapturous, satisfied, sunny, transported, upbeat |
Antonyms: |
miserable, sad |
| Main Entry: | beaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy |
Synonyms: |
animated, cheerful, genial, grinning, joyful, radiant, shining, smiling, sparkling, sunny |
Antonyms: |
frowning, sad, sullen, unhappy |
| Main Entry: | blessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
Synonyms: |
blissful, content, contented, endowed, favored, fortunate, glad, granted, joyful, joyous, lucky |
Antonyms: |
condemned, cursed, damned, unblessed, unfavored, unhappy, unlucky |
| Main Entry: | blissful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
Synonyms: |
beatific, cool*, crazy, delighted, dreamy, ecstatic, elated, enchanted, enraptured, euphoric, floating*, flying*, gone*, heavenly, in ecstasy, in seventh heaven, in the twilight zone, joyful, joyous, mad*, on cloud nine, rapturous, sent, spaced-out, turned-on |
Antonyms: |
grieving, miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, wretched |
| Main Entry: | blithe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
Synonyms: |
animated, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, gay, gladsome, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, sprightly, sunny, vivacious |
Antonyms: |
heavyhearted, morose, sad, sorrowful, unhappy |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheerful |
Synonyms: |
alert, animated, gay, genial, glad, happy, jolly, joyful, joyous, keen, lighthearted, lively, merry, optimistic, sanguine, spirited, sprightly, vivacious |
Antonyms: |
depressed, depressing, doleful, dreary, gloomy, unhappy |
| Main Entry: | buoyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in spirit |
Synonyms: |
animated, blithe, bouncy, breezy, bright, carefree, cheerful, debonair, effervescent, elastic, expansive, full of zip, gay, happy, invigorated, jaunty, jovial, joyful, laid back, lighthearted, lively, peppy, resilient, sunny, supple, vivacious |
Antonyms: |
depressed, down, heavy, heavy-hearted |
| Main Entry: | cheerful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
Synonyms: |
airy, animated, blithe, bouncy, bright, bucked, buoyant, cheery, chipper, chirpy, contented, effervescent, enlivening, enthusiastic, full of pep, gay, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-natured, hearty, high, hilarious, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, jaunty, jocund, jolly, joyful, lighthearted, lively, merry, optimistic, peppy, perky, pleasant, roseate, rosy, sanguine, snappy, sparkling, sprightly, sunny, sunny side up, up*, upbeat, vivacious, winsome, zappy, zingy, zippy |
Antonyms: |
cheerless, depressed, gloomy, grave, heavy, melancholy, sad, serious, unhappy |
| Main Entry: | ecstatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy, blissful |
Synonyms: |
athrill, beatific, crazy, delirious, dreamy, elated, enraptured, enthusiastic, entranced, euphoric, fervent, floating, flying high, frenzied, gone*, high*, in exaltation, in seventh heaven, joyful, joyous, mad, on cloud nine, out, overjoyed, pleased as punch, rapturous, ravished, rhapsodic, sent, sunny, thrilled, tickled pink, tickled to death, transported, turned on, upbeat, wild |
Antonyms: |
despaired, sorrowful, tormented, troubled, unhappy |