joyful
Syllables: joy·ful/ˈd͡ʒɔɪfl̩/
joyful adjective: feeling or causing joy.
Adjective
joyful (comparative joyfuller or more joyful, superlative joyfullest or most joyful)
- Feeling or causing joy.
- The children were joyful on the first day of summer break.
- Her joyful smile lit up the room.
- Synonyms:
- delighted, joyous, air-headed, blissed out, blissful, enrapt, rapt, cock-a-hoop, ecstatic, elated
joyful meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
joyful in Hindi
- feeling or causing joy
- हर्षित harṣit, आनंदित ānandit
joyful in Marathi
- feeling or causing joy
- आनंदी ānandī
joyful in Urdu
- باغ باغ, فرحان, کیف آور, خرم, خوش, محظوظ
joyful in Bengali
- joyful, delightful, delightsome, pleasant
- হর্ষ horśo
- joyful or delightful life
- আয়েশ aẏeś
More languagesFewer languages
- joyful in Telugu
- చిలిపి cilipi
- joyful in Malayalam
- ആഹ്ലാദമുള്ള, സന്തോഷമുള്ള, ആപ്യാന, സന്തുഷ്ടിയുള്ള
- joyful in Kannada
- ಎದೆತುಂಬು, ಆನಂದ
- joyful in Gujarati
- આનંદમય
- joyful in Arabic
- سَعِيد saʕīd, مُفْرِح mufriḥ, مَسْرُور masrūr
- joyful in Vietnamese
- vui, vui vẻ
Examples of joyful in a sentence
- My heart fluttered like a kaleidoscope of butterflies, accompanied by an ocean of joyful tears.
- Dionysus was accompanied by a joyful, winedrunk procession of Satyrs, Silens and maenads.
- Artist and audience are bound together in a three-legged race, sometimes reluctant partners, sometimes joyful in synchroneity.
Synonyms of joyful
14 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- euphoric
- exultant
- filled with happiness
- giddy
- gladsome
- gleeful
- greatly pleased
- lighthearted
- orgasmic
- on cloud nine
- over the moon
- overjoyed
- thrilled
- walking on air
Forms of joyful
| comparative | joyfuller |
|---|---|
| comparative | more joyful |
| superlative | joyfullest |
| superlative | most joyful |
| alternative form | joyfull |
Origin of joyful
From joy + -ful.
Words formed from joyful
Questions about joyful
- What does joyful mean?
- Joyful means feeling or causing joy.
- What is joyful in Hindi?
- Joyful in Hindi is हर्षित (harṣit), आनंदित (ānandit). See Joyful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is joyful?
- Joyful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce joyful?
- Joyful is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɔɪfl̩/.
Words near joyful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: joyful (page history and authors); joyful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); আয়েশ (Bengali) (page history and authors); చిలిపి (Telugu) (page history and authors); joyful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); joyful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); joyful (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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