| alloy | (noun) the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something | Synonyms: admixture |
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| (noun) a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten | Synonyms: metal |
| (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: debase |
| (verb) make an alloy of | - |
| alloyed | (adjective) (used of metals) blended to obtain a desired property | - |
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| (adjective) (used of metals) debased by mixture with an inferior element | - |
| amboyna | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: padauk, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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| (noun) mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus | Synonyms: Andaman redwood |
| annoy | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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| annoyance | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoying, irritation, vexation |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: chafe, vexation |
| (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: aggravator |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: botheration, irritation, vexation |
| annoyed | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: harassed, harried, pestered, vexed |
| annoyer | (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: tease, teaser, vexer |
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| annoying | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
| annoyingly | (adverb) in an annoying manner or to an annoying degree | - |
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| arroyo | (noun) a stream or brook | - |
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| bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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| bootboys | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: skinheads |
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| booyong | (noun) large tree of Australasia | Synonyms: brown oak, crow's foot, Heritiera trifoliolata, red beech, silky elm, stave wood, Terrietia trifoliolata |
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| boy | (noun) a youthful male person | Synonyms: male child |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man | - |
| (noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown man | - |
| (noun) a male human offspring | Synonyms: son |
| boycott | (noun) a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies | - |
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| (verb) refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with | - |
| boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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| boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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| boyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boylike, schoolboyish |
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| boyishly | (adverb) like a boy | Synonyms: boylike |
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| boyishness | (noun) being characteristic of a boy | - |
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| boylike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, schoolboyish |
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| (adverb) like a boy | Synonyms: boyishly |
| boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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| (noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| bullyboy | (noun) a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction | - |
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| buoy | (noun) a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured | - |
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| (verb) mark with a buoy | - |
| (verb) keep afloat | Synonyms: buoy up |
| (verb) float on the surface of water | - |
| buoyancy | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: airiness |
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| (noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: irrepressibility |
| (noun) the tendency to float in water or other liquid | - |
| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: perkiness |
| buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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| (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
| buoyantly | (adverb) in a cheerfully buoyant manner | Synonyms: chirpily |
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| busboy | (noun) a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes | Synonyms: waiter's assistant |
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| carboy | (noun) a large bottle for holding corrosive liquids; usually cushioned in a special container | - |
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| chanoyu | (noun) an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea | Synonyms: tea ceremony |
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| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| cherimoya | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimolla |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit | Synonyms: Annona cherimola, cherimoya tree |
| choirboy | (noun) a boy who sings in a choir | - |
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| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
| cloy | (verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: pall |
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| (verb) supply or feed to surfeit | Synonyms: surfeit |
| cloying | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: saccharine, syrupy, treacly |
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| cloyingly | (adverb) in an overly sweet manner | - |
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| cocoyam | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: dasheen, edda, taro, taro root |
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| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: dasheen, eddo, taro |
| convoy | (noun) the act of escorting while in transit | - |
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| (noun) a procession of land vehicles traveling together | - |
| (noun) a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships | - |
| (verb) escort in transit | - |
| corduroy | (noun) a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton | Synonyms: cord |
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| (noun) a road made of logs laid crosswise | - |
| (verb) build (a road) from logs laid side by side | - |
| corduroys | (noun) cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth | Synonyms: cords |
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| cowboy | (noun) someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles) | - |
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| (noun) a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging | Synonyms: rodeo rider |
| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowman |
| coy | (adjective) showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement | - |
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| (adjective) affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way | Synonyms: demure, overmodest |
| (adjective) modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures | - |
| coydog | (noun) offspring of a coyote and a dog | - |
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| coyly | (adverb) in a coy manner | - |
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| coyness | (noun) the affectation of being demure in a provocative way | Synonyms: demureness |
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| coyol | (noun) tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber | Synonyms: Acrocomia vinifera, coyol palm |
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| coyote | (noun) small wolf native to western North America | Synonyms: brush wolf, Canis latrans, prairie wolf |
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| (noun) a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time) | - |
| (noun) someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border) | - |
| coypu | (noun) aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur | Synonyms: Myocastor coypus, nutria |
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| dayboy | (noun) a day boarder who is a boy | - |
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| decoy | (noun) something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | Synonyms: bait, lure |
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| (noun) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) | Synonyms: steerer |
| (verb) lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy | - |
| deploy | (verb) to distribute systematically or strategically | Synonyms: roll out |
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| deployment | (noun) the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work | - |
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| destroy | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: demolish |
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| (verb) destroy completely; damage irreparably | Synonyms: ruin |
| (verb) put (an animal) to death | Synonyms: put down |
| (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destruct |
| destroyable | (adjective) capable of being destroyed | - |
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| destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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| (adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
| destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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| (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
| disloyal | (adjective) deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle | - |
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| (adjective) showing lack of love for your country | Synonyms: unpatriotic |
| disloyally | (adverb) without loyalty; in a disloyal manner | - |
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| disloyalty | (noun) the quality of being disloyal | - |
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| doughboy | (noun) a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread | - |
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| (noun) an American infantryman in World War I | - |
| doyen | (noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: dean |
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| doyenne | (noun) a woman who is the senior member of a group | - |
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| doyley | (noun) a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | Synonyms: doily, doyly |
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| doyly | (noun) a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | Synonyms: doily, doyley |
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| employ | (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employment |
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| (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, use, utilise, utilize |
| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: engage, hire |
| employable | (adjective) physically and mentally capable of working at a regular job and available | - |
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| (noun) a person who is qualified and ready to work | - |
| employed | (adjective) having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary | - |
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| (adjective) made useful | Synonyms: utilised, utilized |
| employee | (noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job | - |
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| employer | (noun) a person or firm that employs workers | - |
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| employment | (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: work |
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| (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: engagement |
| (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employ |
| enjoy | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, revel |
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| (verb) have benefit from | - |
| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, relish, savor, savour |
| (verb) get pleasure from | Synonyms: love |
| (verb) have for one's benefit | - |
| enjoyable | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: gratifying, pleasurable |
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| enjoyableness | (noun) pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed | - |
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| enjoyably | (adverb) in an enjoyable manner | Synonyms: agreeably, pleasantly |
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| enjoyer | (noun) a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something | - |
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| enjoyment | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: delectation |
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| (noun) (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property | Synonyms: use |
| (noun) the pleasure felt when having a good time | - |
| envoy | (noun) a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry | Synonyms: envoi |
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| (noun) a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador | Synonyms: envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary |
| (noun) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else | Synonyms: emissary |
| fanboy | (noun) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media | - |
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| flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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| flamboyant | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, florid |
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| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: showy, splashy |
| (noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
| flamboyantly | (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flashily, showily |
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| foyer | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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| gargoyle | (noun) an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
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| (noun) a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
| gargoylism | (noun) hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation | Synonyms: dysostosis multiplex, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome, lipochondrodystrophy |
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| goy | (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: gentile, non-Jew |
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| groyne | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| hautboy | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, oboe |
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| highboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: tallboy |
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| hobbledehoy | (noun) an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy | - |
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| homeboy | (noun) a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown | - |
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| (noun) a fellow male member of a youth gang | - |
| hoy | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: barge, flatboat, lighter |
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| hoya | (noun) any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers | - |
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| hoyden | (noun) a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | Synonyms: romp, tomboy |
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| hoydenish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: tomboyish |
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| hoydenism | (noun) masculinity in women (especially in girls and young women) | Synonyms: tomboyishness |
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| joy | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: delight, pleasure |
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| (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joyfulness, joyousness |
| (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: rejoice |
| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: gladden |
| joyful | (adjective) full of or producing joy | - |
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| (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, gleeful, jubilant |