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joyfull

joyfull is the obsolete form of joyful.

Meaning of joyful

Adjective

joyful (comparative joyfuller or more joyful, superlative joyfullest or most joyful)

  1. Feeling or causing joy.
    • The children were joyful on the first day of summer break.

Forms of joyfull

comparativemore joyfull
superlativemost joyfull

Questions about joyfull

What is joyfull the obsolete form of?
Joyfull is the obsolete form of joyful.

Words near joyfull in the dictionary

  1. joyflights
  2. joyfriend
  3. joyfriends
  4. joyful
  5. joyfulest
  6. joyfull
  7. joyfuller
  8. joyfullest
  9. joyfully
  10. joyfulness
  11. joyfulnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: joyfull (page history and authors); joyful (page history and authors). 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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