Overjoyed

/ˌoʊvɚˈd͡ʒɔɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Very happy..

Definitions by Sense

1. Very happy.
2. (obsolete) Overly happy.
3. simple past and past participle of overjoy

Example Sentences

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.

They were most agreeably surprised to see me, and I quite overjoyed at meeting with them.

Olaf was overjoyed, for the power of evil beings ceases when their name is known.

Diana was not the most discerning of mortals, but just at this moment it struck her that Anne was not looking exactly overjoyed.

You are overjoyed the first few times you are invited to an interview, dressing carefully on each occasion in your Lady Dis and suit that now hangs encouragingly loose.

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.

Synonyms for overjoyed

Antonyms for overjoyed

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Word Forms

• more overjoyed
• most overjoyed

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