We were filled with joyful expectation.
Source: tatoeba (20511)
Joyful
//ˈd͡ʒɔɪfl̩//
Synonyms for "joyful" (125 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (62)
Related word relations
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Translations
82 translations across 41 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- سَعِيد adj (feeling or causing joy)
- مَسْرُور adj (feeling or causing joy)
- مُفْرِح adj (feeling or causing joy)
Armenian
1 entries- ուրախ adj (feeling or causing joy)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- sevindirici adj (feeling or causing joy)
- sevinən adj (feeling or causing joy)
- şad adj (feeling or causing joy)
Belarusian
2 entries- вясёлы adj (feeling or causing joy)
- ра́дасны adj (feeling or causing joy)
Bulgarian
2 entries- ве́сел adj (feeling or causing joy)
- ра́достен adj (feeling or causing joy)
Catalan
1 entries- joiós adj (feeling or causing joy)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 快樂 /快乐 adj (feeling or causing joy)
Czech
2 entries- radostný adj (feeling or causing joy)
- veselý adj (feeling or causing joy)
Finnish
1 entries- iloinen adj (feeling or causing joy)
French
2 entries- allègre adj (feeling or causing joy)
- joyeux adj (feeling or causing joy)
Georgian
3 entries- ბედნიერი adj (feeling or causing joy)
- მხიარული adj (feeling or causing joy)
- სიხარულით აღსავსე adj (feeling or causing joy)
German
3 entries- erfreulich adj (feeling or causing joy)
- erfreut adj (feeling or causing joy)
- freudig adj (feeling or causing joy)
Hindi
2 entries- आनंदित adj (feeling or causing joy)
- हर्षित adj (feeling or causing joy)
Hungarian
3 entries- vidám adj (feeling or causing joy)
- örvendetes adj (feeling or causing joy)
- örömteli adj (feeling or causing joy)
Ido
2 entries- joyema adj (feeling or causing joy)
- joyoza adj (feeling or causing joy)
Irish
4 entries- aiteasach adj (feeling or causing joy)
- lainneach adj (feeling or causing joy)
- lúcháireach adj (feeling or causing joy)
- seaghsach adj (feeling or causing joy)
Italian
4 entries- allegro adj (feeling or causing joy)
- felice adj (feeling or causing joy)
- festante adj (feeling or causing joy)
- festoso adj (feeling or causing joy)
Japanese
1 entries- 嬉しい adj (feeling or causing joy)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- mōnglīng adj (feeling or causing joy)
Korean
1 entries- 기쁘다 adj (feeling or causing joy)
Latin
1 entries- gaudens adj (feeling or causing joy)
Latvian
2 entries- dzīvespriecīgs adj (feeling or causing joy)
- jautrs adj (feeling or causing joy)
Macedonian
2 entries- весел adj (feeling or causing joy)
- радосен adj (feeling or causing joy)
Marathi
1 entries- आनंदी adj (feeling or causing joy)
Middle English
1 entries- gamely adj (feeling or causing joy)
Mongolian
1 entries- жаргалтай adj (feeling or causing joy)
Māori
2 entries- harakoa adj (feeling or causing joy)
- matakuikui adj (feeling or causing joy)
Norman
1 entries- jouaiyeux adj (feeling or causing joy)
Old English
1 entries- wynfæst adj (feeling or causing joy)
Old Tupi
2 entries- ory adj (feeling or causing joy)
- oryb adj (feeling or causing joy)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قریر adj (feeling or causing joy)
Polish
2 entries- radosny adj (feeling or causing joy)
- wesoły adj (feeling or causing joy)
Portuguese
2 entries- alegre adj (feeling or causing joy)
- gozoso adj (feeling or causing joy)
Russian
2 entries- весёлый adj (feeling or causing joy)
- ра́достный adj (feeling or causing joy)
Slovak
2 entries- radostný adj (feeling or causing joy)
- veselý adj (feeling or causing joy)
Slovene
1 entries- vesẹ̑l adj (feeling or causing joy)
Southern Altai
1 entries- сӱӱнчилӱ adj (feeling or causing joy)
Spanish
2 entries- alegre adj (feeling or causing joy)
- gozoso adj (feeling or causing joy)
Swedish
1 entries- glädjerik adj (feeling or causing joy)
Ukrainian
2 entries- весе́лий adj (feeling or causing joy)
- ра́дісний adj (feeling or causing joy)
Vietnamese
2 entries- vui adj (feeling or causing joy)
- vui vẻ adj (feeling or causing joy)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
We saw a joyful sight.
Source: tatoeba (248535)
In joyful strains then let us sing: “Advance Australia Fair!”
Source: tatoeba (913394)
The basic idea of Esperanto is the humanist concept of creating a joyful world where life is a pleasure. A world in which travelling is a sparkling delight full of discoveries.
Source: tatoeba (1345572)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.