JOY

n. 1 pleasure, gratification, satisfaction, happiness, contentment, enjoyment, gladness, delight, felicity, elation, exaltation, ecstasy, bliss, exhilaration, exultation, rapture We felt indescribable joy at seeing the children safe and sound 2 gaiety, cheerfulness, cheer, glee, buoyancy, joviality, jollity, jocundity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, merriment, light-heartedness, blithesomeness Let me wish you joy in this holiday season 3 delight, pleasure, treat, blessing, gratification, satisfaction, prize A thing of beauty is a joy forever