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JOY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something or someone that provides a source of happiness
Example:
the new car is a delight
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("joy" is a kind of...):
positive stimulus (a stimulus with desirable consequences)
Derivation:
joy (make glad or happy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The emotion of great happiness
Synonyms:
joy; joyfulness; joyousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("joy" is a kind of...):
emotion (any strong feeling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "joy"):
rhapsody (an enthusiastic expression of emotion)
elation; high spirits; lightness (a feeling of joy and pride)
exultation; jubilance; jubilancy; jubilation (a feeling of extreme joy)
excitement; exhilaration (the feeling of lively and cheerful joy)
exuberance (joyful enthusiasm)
Antonym:
sorrow (an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement)
Derivation:
joy (make glad or happy)
joy (feel happiness or joy)
joyous (full of or characterized by joy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make glad or happy
Synonyms:
gladden; joy
Classified under:
Cause:
gladden (become glad or happy)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "joy"):
overjoy (cause to feel extremely joyful or happy)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The good news will joy her
Derivation:
joy (something or someone that provides a source of happiness)
joy (the emotion of great happiness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Feel happiness or joy
Synonyms:
joy; rejoice
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Hypernyms (to "joy" is one way to...):
experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "joy"):
cheer; cheer up; chirk up (become cheerful)
gladden (become glad or happy)
be on cloud nine; exult; jump for joy; walk on air (feel extreme happiness or elation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
joy (the emotion of great happiness)
Context examples:
The completion of the preparations for my breakfast, by relieving the fire, gave her such extreme joy that she laughed aloud—and a very unmelodious laugh she had, I must say.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A flash of odious joy appeared upon the woman’s face.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Don't it, though?” cried Dick with a sort of joy.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“You know,” I answered with some emotion, for I have never seen so much of Holmes’s heart before, “that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
There is no need to urge me, friends, for my own wishes would draw me to France, and it would be a joy to me if I could go with you.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
God forgive me, how my heart bounded for joy, when hers, which was within touch of it, was breaking with sorrow!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the same time her own tears fell thick and fast at the joy of meeting her old friend again, and these tears did not need to be wiped away.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Meantime he began to be tired, and hungry too, for he had given away his last penny in his joy at getting the cow.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Blind as he was, smiles played over his face, joy dawned on his forehead: his lineaments softened and warmed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
