joy

A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.countableuncountable

• a child's joy on Christmas morning
• It is his joy to walk in the rain.

Anything that causes such a feeling.countableuncountable

• the joys and demands of parenthood

Luck or success; a positive outcome.countableuncountable

• Grant had no joy with taking a nap, so he began to systematically feel if everything was working: fingers and toes, etc.
• 'Rob? It's Gary. Are you having any joy with this trip to Bali?' 'No joy at all, mate. I reckon Bali's out for the foreseeable future. […]

The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.countableobsoleteuncountable

• Such ioy made Vna, when her knight she found;
• The roofs with joy resound.

Expressing appreciation and happiness.datedoftensarcastic

• 'Joy! joy!' he cried, throwing his arms towards Heaven, 'on a grave be the site of our Temple; and now our happiness is for Eternity!'
• Hanrahan closed his mouth, tried unsuccessfully to breathe through his nose, then opened his mouth again. "Oh, joy," he muttered. "This kid doesn't even go to the bathroom, I bet. Probably been taught not to. It isn't nice."

To feel joy, to rejoice.intransitive

• 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 18, “Tale of the Portress,” p. 178, I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for h

To enjoy.archaictransitive

• I haue my wish, in that I ioy thy sight,
• For from the time that Scudamour her bought, In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day […].

To give joy to; to congratulate.obsoletetransitive

• Then round our Death-bed ev'ry Friend ſhou'd run, / And joy us of our Conqueſt, early won: […]
• Evil like Us they shun, and covet Good; Abhor the Poison, and receive the Food. Like Us they love or hate: like Us they know, To joy the Friend, or grapple with the Foe.

To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.obsoletetransitive

• Yet neither pleasure’s art can joy my spirits, Nor yet the other’s distance comfort me.