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Overjoy

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Very great joy.

    "to salute my king / With ruder terms, such as my wit affords / And over-joy of heart doth minister"

  2. 2
    Excessive joy.

    "Restraint of the organs of sense, on which success in study and discipline depends, can be enforced by abandoning lust, anger, greed, vanity (māna), haughtiness (mada) and overjoy (harṣa)."

Verb
  1. 1
    To give great joy, delight or pleasure to. transitive

    "The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me."

  2. 2
    cause to feel extremely joyful or happy wordnet
  3. 3
    To give too much joy to. rare, transitive

    "Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother’s; / Hers couldst thou wholly be, / My light in thee would outglow all in others; / She would relive to me. / But niggard Nature’s trick of birth / Bars, lest she overjoy, / Renewal of the loved on earth / Save with alloy."

  4. 4
    To take too much pleasure (in something). intransitive, obsolete

    "1598, John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal , Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From over- + joy.

Etymology 2

From over- + joy.

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