Antonyms for JOY
dʒɔɪjoy

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. joynoun

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

   Antonyms:
   joylessness, unhappiness, infelicity

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. joy

   Gratification is the giving any mental or physical desire something that it craves; satisfaction is the giving such a desire all that it craves. Happiness is the positively agreeable experience that springs from the possession of good, the gratification or satisfaction of the desires or the relief from pain and evil. Comfort may be almost wholly negative, being found in security or relief from that which pains or annoys; there is comfort by a warm fireside on a wintry night; the sympathy of a true friend affords comfort in sorrow. Enjoyment is more positive, always implying something to be definitely and consciously delighted in; a sick person finds comfort in relief from pain, while he may be far from a state of enjoyment. Pleasure is still more vivid, being an arousing of the faculties to an intensely agreeable activity; satisfaction is more tranquil than pleasure, being the agreeable consciousness of having all that our faculties demand or crave; when a worthy pleasure is past, a worthy satisfaction remains. As referring to a mental state, gratification is used to denote a mild form of happiness resulting from some incident not of very great importance; satisfaction should properly express a happiness deeper, more complete, and more abiding; but as intellect or sensibilities of a low order may find satisfaction in that which is very poor or unworthy, the word has come to be feeble and tame in ordinary use. Happiness is more positive than comfort, enjoyment, or satisfaction, more serene and rational than pleasure; pleasure is of necessity transient; happiness is abiding, and may be eternal; thus, we speak of pleasures, but the plural of happiness is scarcely used. Happiness, in the full sense, is mental or spiritual or both, and is viewed as resulting from some worthy gratification or satisfaction; we may speak of a brute as experiencing comfort or pleasure, but scarcely as in possession of happiness; we speak of vicious pleasure, delight, or joy, but not of vicious happiness. Felicity is a philosophical term, colder and more formal than happiness. Gladness is happiness that overflows, expressing itself in countenance, voice, manner, and action. Joy is more intense than happiness, deeper than gladness, to which it is akin, nobler and more enduring than pleasure. Gaiety is more superficial than joy, more demonstrative than gladness. Rejoicing is happiness or joy that finds utterance in word, song, festivity, etc. Delight is vivid, overflowing happiness of a somewhat transient kind; ecstasy is a state of extreme or extravagant delight so that the one affected by it seems almost beside himself with joy; rapture is closely allied to ecstasy, but is more serene, exalted, and enduring. Triumph is such joy as results from victory, success, achievement. Blessedness is at once the state and the sense of being divinely blessed; as, the blessedness of the righteous. Bliss is ecstatic, perfected happiness; as, the bliss of heaven. Compare COMFORT.

   See synonyms for GRIEF.

   Synonyms:
   blessedness, bliss, cheer, comfort, contentment, delight, ecstasy, enjoyment, felicity, gaiety, gladness, gratification, happiness, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rapture, rejoicing, satisfaction, triumph

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. joy

   Antonyms:
   sorrow, pain, trouble, misery, melancholy, grief, affliction, tears, depression, despondency, despair

   Synonyms:
   gladness, pleasure, delight, happiness, exultation, transport, felicity, ecstasy, rapture, bites, gaiety, mirth, merriment, festivity, hilarity

Matched Categories

1. • Emotion
   • Feel

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. joy, joyousness, joyfulnessnoun

   the emotion of great happiness

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

   Synonyms:
   joyousness, joy, delight, pleasure, joyfulness

2. joy, delight, pleasureverb

   something or someone that provides a source of happiness

   "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

   Synonyms:
   joyousness, joy, pleasance, delectation, delight, pleasure, joyfulness

3. rejoice, joyverb

   feel happiness or joy

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

   Synonyms:
   rejoice, gladden, jubilate, wallow, exuberate, exult, joy, triumph

4. gladden, joyverb

   make glad or happy

   Antonyms:
   sorrow

   Synonyms:
   joy, gladden, rejoice

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1. joynoun

   Synonyms:
   gladness, exultation, jubilation, mirth, festivity glee, elation, merriment

How to use JOY in a sentence?

1. Billy Gardell:

   The attitude on our set has been gratitude since Day 1, so there is no craziness. It's a joy to get to work with those people.

2. Marc Lebryk-USA:

   Full-time daddy duty, it’s been a complete joy.

3. Yvonne Padmos:

   I'll sing without singing lessons because it brings me happiness. We should pursue joy, not just perfection. I share my love for singing with the world, even without professional training. Like climbing mountains, it doesn't matter if I reach the top with or without lessons - the view is just as beautiful from where I stand.”

4. AiR Atman in Ravi:

   If there is garbage in your Mind, and it's full of joy, it's time to Tame your 'Monkey Mind' and make it into a Monk!

5. Tsotne Machavariani:

   It's a double joy for me, because I will participate in the Olympics for the first time in my life and because I will compete in Rio alongside my mother.

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