Word Meanings - JOYFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. "Joyful tidings." Shak. My soul shall be joyful in my God. Is. lxi. 10. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. Pope. -- Joy"ful*ly, adv. -- Joy"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JOYFUL)

• Cheerful
• Lively
• gay
• bright
• happy
• bonny
• merry
• joyful
• pleasant
• buoyant
• enlivening
• In good spirits
• sprightly
• blithe
• joyous
• Glad
• Happy
• pleased
• gratified
• blithesome
• gleeful
• gladsome
• delighted
• cheerful
• elated
• Jocund
• Merry
• jovial
• careless
• mirthful
• hilarious
• sportive
• lively
• vivacious
• Jolly
• Gay
• genial
• jubilant
• robust
• plump

Related words: (words related to JOYFUL)

• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• JOVIALITY
  The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• GENIALLY
  1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
• ELATION
  A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• JOVIALTY
  Joviality. Barrow.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• PLUMPNESS
  The quality or state of being plump.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• JOVIALIST
  One who lives a jovial life. Bp. Hall.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• GENIALNESS
  The quality of being genial.
• GENIALITY
  The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
• BLITHELY
  In a blithe manner.
• JOVIALNESS
  Noisy mirth; joviality. Hewyt.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• GELATIFICATION
  The formation of gelatin.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• CRENELATION
  The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• ANHELATION
  Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.