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overjoy

overjoy verb: to give great joy, delight or pleasure to.

Verb

overjoy (third-person singular simple present overjoys, present participle overjoying, simple past and past participle overjoyed)

  1. (transitive) To give great joy, delight or pleasure to.
    • The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me.
    • This salutation ouerioyes my heart.1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC...
  2. (rare, transitive) To give too much joy to.
    • Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother’s; / Hers couldst thou wholly be, / My light in thee would outglow all in others; / She would relive to me. / But niggard Nature’s trick of birth / Bars, lest she overjoy, / Renewal of the loved on earth / Save with alloy.1898, Thomas Hardy, “To an Orphan Child”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 163
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To take too much pleasure (in something).
    • Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:1598, John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal
    • it is hard not to ouer-ioy in a sudden prosperitie, and, to vse happinesse is no lesse difficult, then to forbeare it1618, Joseph Hall, Contemplations upon the Principall Passages of the Holy Story, volume 4, London: Henry Fetherstone, page 42

Noun

overjoy

  1. Very great joy.
    • to salute my king / With ruder terms, such as my wit affords / And over-joy of heart doth minister1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • a. 1631, John Donne, Letter to Robert Karre in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, 1651, p. 299,
      I beginne to bee past hope of dying: And I feele that a little ragge of Monte Magor, which I read last time I was in your Chamber, hath wrought prophetically upon mee, which...
    Synonyms:
    ecstasy
  2. Excessive joy.
    • Restraint of the organs of sense, on which success in study and discipline depends, can be enforced by abandoning lust, anger, greed, vanity (māna), haughtiness (mada) and overjoy (harṣa).1963, B. A. Saletore, Ancient Indian Political Thought and Institutions, Asia Publishing House, page 318
    • The knowledge that some are deprived tempers overjoy or overdesire.1991, Robert F. Morneau, Mantras from a Poet: Jessica Powers, Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, page 5

overjoy meaning in Malayalam

overjoy in Malayalam

അമിതാഹ്ലാദം, അത്യാനന്ദം

Examples of overjoy in a sentence

  • If my Letter pleas'd you, your's overjoy'd me; and I expect impatiently your kind Viſit: […]1711 July 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Alexander Pope, “Letters to Henry Cromwell, Esq. Letter V.”, in Mr Pope’s Literary...
  • The katydids express their overjoy / Down in knee-high maturing August grasses;1975, Jesse Stuart, “No Warning from the Wind”, in The World of Jesse Stuart: Selected Poems,, New York: McGraw-Hill, page 158:
  • The emotional extremes of overexcitement, overjoy, depression, and anxiety are all blockages in the Message Center.2006, Zhi Gang Sha, chapter 6, in Soul Mind Body Medicine, Novato, CA: New World Library, page 158:

Synonyms of overjoy

Forms of overjoy

third-person singular presentoverjoys
present participleoverjoying
past participleoverjoyed
pastoverjoyed

Origin of overjoy

From over- + joy.

Words formed from overjoy

Words that rhyme with overjoy

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Questions about overjoy

What does overjoy mean?
Overjoy means to give great joy, delight or pleasure to.
What is overjoy in Malayalam?
Overjoy in Malayalam is അമിതാഹ്ലാദം, അത്യാനന്ദം. See Overjoy meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use overjoy in a sentence?
If my Letter pleas'd you, your's overjoy'd me; and I expect impatiently your kind Viſit: […]
What part of speech is overjoy?
Overjoy can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overjoy?
The past tense of overjoy is overjoyed.

Words near overjoy in the dictionary

  1. overjets
  2. overjittery
  3. overjocular
  4. overjolt
  5. overjolts
  6. overjoy
  7. overjoyed
  8. overjoyful
  9. overjoyfully
  10. overjoyfulness
  11. overjoying

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