Word Finder - joy

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

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They will be a source of strength and joy in your life.

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Anything that causes such a feeling.

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the joys and demands of parenthood

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Luck or success; a positive outcome.

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

The next morning I awoke with joy in my heart.

My heart is singing for joy this morning.

The memory of it is a joy forever.

In that moment of obvious joy, Alondra barely had an accent.

When the children saw the trees all aglow with brilliant colors they clapped their hands and shouted for joy, and immediately began to pick great bunches to take home.

I want to weep for joy.

The Tin Woodman loved Dorothy most tenderly, and welcomed with joy the return of the little old Wizard.

There was no joy in life, yet life was passing.

Animals can bring great joy into your life.

There is no greater joy for an artist than to know their work is in the hands of someone who truly understands it.

A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face.

Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a man, be for her?

He had taken out his new Lotus Elise and gone for a joy ride first.

Maybe you would have lost her anyway, but at least we would have had some joy for a while.

In the ruddy fire glow her fair face looked radiant with joy.

She expected joy at the offer but felt wary instead.

Women who are young, sporty, and full of energy and joy tend to like this type.

Whatever the case, they were either honest or meant to give her joy.

He also wants to learn the violin which does not fill us with joy.

In 1758 he returned with mingled joy and regret to England, and was kindly received at home.

The lost sheep is brought home with a special joy.

This was felt to be a humiliating transaction by many of Johns subjects, though to others the joy at reconciliation with the Church caused all else to be forgotten.

Great joy does, not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw.

These colorful, beautifully patterned fish are a joy to watch as they emerge from their hiding places in the coral rubble.

It was all joy and exceedingly smart wordplay from him.

My baby's smiles are small gifts of joy.

The end of the Constituent Assembly he heard of with joy and with bright hopes for the future, soon dashed by the behaviour of the Legislative Assembly.

His figure is that of a grotesque mountebank, intended to inspire joy or drive away pain and sorrow, his hideousness being perhaps supposed actually to scare away the evil spirits.

The Manchester Lectures (July 1857) treated the moral and social uses of art, now embodied in A Joy for Ever.

The Bavarian dream dissipated, victories gained in Flanders by Marshal Saxe, another adventurer of genius, at Fontenoy, Raucoux and Lawfeld (1745-1747), were hailed with joy as continuing those of Louis XIV.; even though they resulted in the loss of Germany and the doubling of English armaments.

I think we were really quite dark but in a Joy Division sort of way - still quite uplifting dark, not morose.

Joy is an act of proper response to divine providence.

The joy of liberation was soon followed by anarchy as mobs rampaged through the city in an orgy of looting.

Among the chivalrous lovers of Provence, this high rapture received the name of " Joy.

Many of us will cherish the characters she brought to the site and played with such verve and joy.

City's joy was short lived however as just seven minutes later the visitors restored their lead when England fired in a left-foot volley.

And joy of all joys, I'm playing waitress for the evening, which includes making the starter.

In particular, when faced with a large group of comely wenches, the surprise and joy on his face was a picture.

Her moans grow in strength from low whimpers of joy to shouts of ecstasy.

And in the hearts of all blossomed wondrous flowers of wondrous beauty, the flowers of joy.

So many were deeply moved and witnessed to a growth in faith and to the joy of having all-age worship.

And when I heard it my heart did leap for joy."

The old child-like joy in life so manifest in the Vedas had died away; the worship of nature had developed or degenerated into the worship of new and less pure divinities; and the Vedic songs themselves, whose freedom was little compatible with the spirit of the age, had faded into an obscurity which did not lessen their value to the priests.

Then, full of joy, the musician hastened to Corinth, not stopping even to change his dress.

All the best of me belongs to her--there is not a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened by her loving touch.

The buoyant motion of the water filled me with an exquisite, quivering joy.

My thoughts flowed easily; I felt a sense of joy in the composition.

My heart, too, was full of gratitude and solemn joy.

And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy.

Something stood sentinel within her and forbade her every joy.