Joyous

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  • adjective. Feeling, showing, or causing joy; joyful. synonym: glad.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Feeling or manifesting joy; joyful; glad; merry.
  • Causing joy; making glad.
  • Synonyms See list under joyful.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Full of joy; happy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. full of or characterized by joy
  • Word Usage
    "It may be only grandstanding for the cameras, but I strongly suspect that it is something more, that Pinera speaks and acts for a people united in joyous admiration for the miners and their rescuers: united right across the gulf between right and left, poverty and wealth, one political party and another."
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    boyish  cheerful  eager  hearty  joyful  
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