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joyous

adj
/ˈd͡ʒɔɪəs/

Etymology

From Middle English joyous, joious, from Old French joieus, from joie + -eus.

  1. derived from joieus
  2. inherited from joyous

Definitions

  1. Full of joy

    Full of joy; happy.

    • I want to go on a mountain top / With a radio and good batteries / To play a joyous tune and / Free the human race / From suffering
    • Southgate and his England players repeated the scenes from the dramatic penalty shootout win over Colombia as they celebrated in front of joyous supporters at the final whistle[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at joyous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01joyous02happy03fortune04cookie05bun06spree07merry08jolly

A definitional loop anchored at joyous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at joyous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA