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overjoyed

adj
/ˌoʊvɚˈd͡ʒɔɪd/US/ˌəʊvəˈd͡ʒɔɪd/UK

Definitions

  1. Very happy.

    • Fans were overjoyed at / by the sight of their team handing the visitors such a decisive defeat.
    • After a long, arduous trek, we were overjoyed to catch sight of our destination at last.
    • The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being overjoyed with finding a birds’ nest, shows it his companion, and he steals it.

  2. Overly happy.

    • Which must teach vs not to be ouer-ioyed with any of Gods fauours, and honours, but euen then to thinke of, and to prepare for some following after-claps, and as contentedly to endure the one, as cheerefully receiue the other.

  3. simple past and past participle of overjoy

The neighborhood

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