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Adjective joyful has 3 senses
- joyful - full of or producing joy; "make a joyful noise"; "a joyful occasion"
Antonyms: sorrowful, anguished, tormented, tortured, bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing, bitter, brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick, dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping, elegiac, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, lamentable, lamenting, wailing, wailful, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sad, woebegone, woeful
- elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant - full of high-spirited delight
Antonym: joyless (indirect, via joyous)
- joyful, joyous - full of or suggesting exultant happiness; "a joyful heart"; "a joyful occasion"; "the joyous news"; "joyous laughter"
Antonym: unhappy (indirect, via happy)
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