rejoicing

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Feeling of joy

Nouns

1. rejoicing, exultation, triumph, jubilation, joy, revelry, reveling, merrymaking, festivity, jubilee, celebration, paean, acclamation, thanksgiving, congratulation.

2. (expression of pleasure) smile, simper, smirk, gloat, grin; laughter, giggle, titter, snigger, snicker, crow, chuckle, horse laugh; fit, shout, roar, gale, or peal of laughter; risibility; laugh track. Informal, canned laughter.

3. (expression of pleasure at success) cheer, hurrah, hooray, shout, yell, hallelujah.

Verbs

1. rejoice, thank one's [lucky] stars, congratulate oneself, clap one's hands, fling up one's cap; dance, skip; sing, chirrup, hurrah; cry or leap for joy, leap with joy, exult, glory, triumph, celebrate; be tickled.

2. make merry, smile, simper, smirk, grin, laugh, giggle, titter, snigger, crow, snicker, chortle, chuckle, cackle; cheer; hurrah, yell, shout, roar, split one's sides. Informal, crack a smile, break up, hoot.

3. enjoy, revel in, delight in, be glad.

Adjectives — rejoicing, jubilant, exultant, triumphant, flushed, glad, gladsome, elated, laughing, bursting or convulsed with laughter; risible, laughable. Informal, in stitches.

Interjections — hurrah! hooray! three cheers! hail! Heaven be praised! Slang, swell! great! oh, boy!

Phrases — he laughs best who laughs longest.

Quotations — Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning (Bible), The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible (Bertrand Russell), My heart is like a feather and my spirits are dancing (Abigail Adams).

Antonyms, see lamentation.

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. exhilaration, triumph, festivity; see celebration 2 , happiness 1 , 2 .

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The act of showing joyful satisfaction in an event: celebration, festivity, merrymaking, revel (often used in plural), revelry. See LAUGHTER.