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joy

noun

1 whoops of joy | the look of joy on her face:

delight, great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, glee, exhilaration, ebullience, exuberance, elation, euphoria, bliss, ecstasy, transports of delight, rapture, radiance;

enjoyment, gratification, felicity;

cloud nine, seventh heaven;

French joie de vivre;

humorous delectation;

literary joyousness;

rare jouissance, ravishment, jocundity.

▷antonyms misery, despair.

2 it was a joy to be with her:

pleasure, source of pleasure, delight, treat, thrill;

informal buzz, kick.

▷antonyms trial, tribulation.

3 informal if you still have no joy, you may have to resort to the courts:

success, satisfaction, luck, successful result, positive result;

accomplishment, achievement.

joy Oxford Dictionary of English