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English Dictionary: joyous by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
joyous
adj
  1. full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter"
    Antonym(s): joyless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Joyous \Joy"ous\, a. [OE. joyous, joious, joios, F. joyeux.See
      {Joy}.]
      Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy;
      with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.
  
               Is this your joyous city?                        --Is. xxiii.
                                                                              7.
  
               They all as glad as birds of joyous prime. --Spenser.
  
               And joyous of our conquest early won.      --Dryden.
  
      Syn: Merry; lively; blithe; gleeful; gay; glad; mirthful;
               sportive; festive; joyful; happy; blissful; charming;
               delightful. -- {Joy"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ous*ness}, n.
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