| 单词 | joyful |
| 释义 | joyful (once / 417 pages) adj Someone who's joyful is very happy. A joyful child will laugh with delight. When you experience the feeling of joy, you're joyful. For many people, their wedding day, the birth of their children, or simply a beautiful summer afternoon can all be joyful occasions. To be joyful is beyond being happy — there is delight and a kind of bliss involved in feeling joyful. The noun joy is at the root of joyful, from the Old French joie with its Latin root of gaudere, "rejoice." WORD FAMILYjoyful: joyfuler, joyfulest, joyfully, joyfulness+/enjoy: enjoyable, enjoyed, enjoyer, enjoying, enjoyment, enjoys/enjoyable: enjoyableness, enjoyably/enjoyer: enjoyers/enjoyment: enjoyments/joy: enjoy, joyed, joyful, joying, joyless, joyous, joys, overjoy/joyless: joylessly, joylessness/joyous: joyousest, joyously, joyousness/overjoy: overjoyed, overjoys USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Sorensen, despite his wish to die, was a joyful talker who never failed to cheer up in conversation. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) They lip-sync the “Joyful, Joyful” choir performance from “Sister Act II,” and then Whoopi Goldberg shows up in a full habit. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) “It was a special and joyful experience to share in the care of the Miller quadruplets,” said Turner. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1adj full of or producing joy make a joyful noise a joyful occasion Syn|Ant happy enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure beatificexperiencing or bestowing celestial joy overjoyedextremely joyful joyousfull of or characterized by joy sorrowful experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss unhappyexperiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent anguished, tormented, torturedexperiencing intense pain especially mental pain bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowingsorrowful through loss or deprivation bitterexpressive of severe grief or regret brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsickfull of sorrow dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weepingshowing sorrow elegiacexpressing sorrow often for something past grievous, heartbreaking, heartrendingcausing or marked by grief or anguish lamenting, wailful, wailingvocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression lugubriousexcessively mournful mournful, plaintiveexpressing sorrow sadof things that make you feel sad woebegone, woefulaffected by or full of grief or woe joylessnot experiencing or inspiring joy 2adj full of high-spirited delight a joyful heart Syn elated, gleeful, jubilant joyous full of or characterized by joy |
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