Definition for Joy:

• To rejoice; to be glad; to exult.

Synonyms for Joy:

• n.

  •
  • activity,
  • change,
  • binge,
  • escapism,
  • blast.
  •
  • care,
  • blessing,
  • refreshment,
  • dainty,
  • indulgence,
  • diversion,
  • treasure,
  • sport,
  • solace.
  •
  • happy,
  • like.
  •
  • beatitude.
  •boast (noun)
  • pride and joy.
  •celebration (noun)
  • glorification,
  • celebration,
  • praise,
  • revelry,
  • observance,
  • commencement,
  • carousal,
  • commemoration,
  • honor,
  • inauguration,
  • acclamation,
  • ceremony,
  • feast,
  • remembrance,
  • proclamation,
  • convocation,
  • ovation,
  • memorialization,
  • salute,
  • merry-making,
  • spree,
  • rejoicing,
  • ritual,
  • holiday,
  • festivity.
  •cheer (noun)
  • joyousness,
  • exuberance,
  • Cheeriness.
  •cheerfulness (noun)
  • joie de vivre,
  • Light-heartedness.
  •emotion (noun)
  • warmth.
  •enthusiasm (noun)
  • oomph.
  •expectation (noun)
  • anticipation.
  •feelings (noun)
  • emotion.
  •great happiness, pleasure (noun)
  • frolic,
  • amusement,
  • luxury,
  • prize,
  • gem,
  • wonder,
  • pride,
  • liveliness,
  • hilarity,
  • jewel,
  • humor,
  • transport,
  • charm,
  • good humor,
  • gaiety,
  • exulting,
  • gratification,
  • comfort,
  • mirth,
  • animation,
  • alleviation.
  •joy (noun)
  • gladden.
  •pleasure (noun)
  • well-being,
  • complaisance,
  • relish,
  • Bonniness,
  • brightness,
  • jollity,
  • entertainment,
  • agreeability,
  • contentment,
  • enthrallment.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • distress,
  • Overjoy,
  • annoyance,
  • merriment.
  •
  • gratify,
  • please.
  •
  • tickle.
  •
  • enchant.
  •happiness
  • buoyancy,
  • relief,
  • welfare,
  • vivacity,
  • afterglow,
  • fulfillment.
  •joy
  • joviality.
  •Other relevant words:
  • enliven,
  • blissfully,
  • refulgent,
  • happily,
  • blithely,
  • gratifying,
  • on good terms,
  • glow,
  • jollification,
  • be in clover,
  • cloud nine,
  • sportiveness,
  • jubilant,
  • gambol,
  • blissful,
  • felicitate,
  • glory,
  • vigour,
  • fire,
  • cheerily,
  • elate,
  • merrymaking,
  • frivolity,
  • delighted,
  • effulgent,
  • zeal,
  • carnival,
  • distinction,
  • hilariousness,
  • chirp,
  • jubilate,
  • bewitchment,
  • delightfully,
  • elevate,
  • jeer,
  • sprightliness,
  • gasconade,
  • catch,
  • exult,
  • sunlight,
  • readily,
  • caracole,
  • find,
  • joyful,
  • wish one joy,
  • prosperity,
  • auspicious,
  • mirthfully,
  • bright,
  • gusto,
  • pleasant,
  • mirthfulness,
  • pleased,
  • rollick,
  • festive,
  • apple of eye,
  • zip,
  • Garden Of Eden,
  • rest,
  • animatedly,
  • in full swing,
  • mother,
  • chirrup,
  • blissfulness,
  • gloat,
  • Chirk Up,
  • Thank one's stars,
  • excitedly,
  • best wishes,
  • gleeful,
  • luckily,
  • blessedness,
  • pleasing,
  • genial,
  • hug oneself,
  • heaven,
  • jocosity,
  • schadenfreude,
  • carol,
  • give up,
  • beam,
  • whistle,
  • wittiness,
  • lilt,
  • refresh,
  • jocundity,
  • amuse,
  • joyous,
  • congenial,
  • congratulate,
  • energy,
  • frisk,
  • applaud,
  • congratulate oneself,
  • laughter,
  • joyfully,
  • lighten,
  • enchantment,
  • wallow,
  • inspire,
  • gas,
  • Jolliness,
  • caper,
  • victory,
  • wassail,
  • cheerfully,
  • dance,
  • spirit,
  • recreate,
  • gayness,
  • gaily,
  • flout,
  • exhilarate,
  • crow,
  • brightly,
  • gleefulness,
  • blithesomeness,
  • hearten,
  • weeping,
  • skip,
  • ideal,
  • levity,
  • High Jinks,
  • pleasingly,
  • experience pleasure,
  • credit,
  • gloat over,
  • romp,
  • delightfulness,
  • vim,
  • paradise,
  • gleefully,
  • retire,
  • blithe,
  • recreation,
  • beatification,
  • hurrah,
  • sunshine,
  • cheer up,
  • enjoy,
  • vitality,
  • smile,
  • purr,
  • pleasantly,
  • fulfilment,
  • blessed,
  • jovially,
  • utopia,
  • manna,
  • life,
  • darling,
  • lightheartedness,
  • revel,
  • dreamland,
  • feel pleasure,
  • sparkle,
  • gaud,
  • heartiness,
  • willing,
  • walk on air,
  • playfulness,
  • pizazz,
  • choice,
  • heaven on earth,
  • enjoy oneself,
  • Gratulate,
  • nympholepsy,
  • agreeably,
  • Exuberate,
  • laughing,
  • seventh heaven,
  • glad,
  • be pleased,
  • gladly,
  • sing,
  • excitement,
  • jocularity,
  • delightedly,
  • commotion,
  • pleasurable,
  • friskiness,
  • merry,
  • privilege,
  • zing,
  • be fond of,
  • merriness,
  • blitheness,
  • zest,
  • intoxication,
  • agreeable,
  • honour,
  • cheerful,
  • delightful,
  • success,
  • self-regard,
  • propitious,
  • laugh,
  • compliment,
  • ebullience,
  • celebrate,
  • light,
  • dash,
  • merrily,
  • joyously,
  • fortunately,
  • eden.

Paraphrases for Joy:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    gladness, glee, delight.
  • Verb, base form
    delight.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    enjoyment, jubilation, excitement.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    thrill, enthusiasm, gusto, bliss, gratification, pleasing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    going.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    happy, joyful.
  • Proper noun, singular
    happiness, joyful.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    rejoicing, satisfaction, celebration, happiness, happy, joyful, cheerful.

Antonyms for Joy:

• n.

  • feeling
    sorrow.
  • great happiness, pleasure
    seriousness, mourning, work, woe, dislike, discouragement, unhappiness, misery, melancholy, sadness, depression, vocation.
  • Other antonyms:
    ill-being, joylessness, cheerlessness, plaintiveness, calamity, Desolateness, wretchedness, woefulness, purgatory, sufferance, disheartenment.

Homophones for Joy:

• Joye.

Hypernym for Joy:

• n.

  • feeling
    exuberance, exultation, excitement, high spirits, elation, rhapsody, lightness, jubilation, jubilance, jubilancy, exhilaration.

• v.

  • emotion
    cheer up, be on cloud nine, cheer, jump for joy, Chirk Up, walk on air, gladden, exult.

Hyponym for Joy:

• n.

  • feeling
    emotion.

• v.

  • emotion
    experience, feel.