JOYOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does joyous mean? 

• JOYOUS (adjective)
  The adjective JOYOUS has 1 sense:

1. full of or characterized by joy

  Familiarity information: JOYOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOYOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of or characterized by joy

Context example:

joyous laughter

Similar:

ecstatic; enraptured; rapt; rapturous; rhapsodic (feeling great rapture or delight)

elated; gleeful; joyful; jubilant (full of high-spirited delight)

festal; festive; gay; merry (offering fun and gaiety)

gay; jocund; jolly; jovial; merry; mirthful (full of or showing high-spirited merriment)

Also:

elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)

happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)

joyful (full of or producing joy)

Antonym:

joyless (not experiencing or inspiring joy)

Derivation:

joy; joyousness (the emotion of great happiness)

 Context examples 

This could have been a joyous time for your closest relationship.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Some change of countenance was necessary for each gentleman as they walked into Mrs. Weston's drawing-room;—Mr. Elton must compose his joyous looks, and Mr. John Knightley disperse his ill-humour.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Who that had seen him bright and joyous in his young beauty, but must weep over his untimely loss!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Lady Tiphaine was lowered with a noose drawn fast under the arms, and the other five slid swiftly down, amid the cheers and joyous outcry of their rescuers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was an explosive bark, brief and joyous, but a bark.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I had the pleasure of feeling that my arrangements met their wishes exactly, and that what I had done added a vivid charm to their joyous return home.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Upon the whole, it was a very joyous note.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was a merry, joyous party, and no one seemed in higher spirits than Captain Wentworth.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But Holmes was shaking his head, and his face was puzzled and expectant rather than joyous.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He, at least, after the customary agonizing of youth, found content and made of his materialism a joyous thing.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)