overjoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈd͡ʒɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈd͡ʒɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: more overjoyed
form: most overjoyed
Senses: examples: text: Fans were overjoyed at / by the sight of their team handing the visitors such a decisive defeat.
text: After a long, arduous trek, we were overjoyed to catch sight of our destination at last.
text: The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being overjoyed with finding a birds’ nest, shows it his companion, and he steals it.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: They were most agreeably surprised to see me, and I quite overjoyed at meeting with them.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, volume 2, London: for the author, page 85:
text: Diana was not the most discerning of mortals, but just at this moment it struck her that Anne was not looking exactly overjoyed.
ref: 1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter 15, in Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page 150:
text: 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.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 8, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press:
synonyms: word: exuberant
word: joyful
word: berserk
word: blissed out
word: blithe
word: buoyant
word: blithesome
word: bonnie
word: bright
word: cheerful
word: cheerly
word: cheery
word: chuffed
word: cock-a-hoop
word: content
word: contented
word: convivial
word: delighted
word: ebullient
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: excited
word: exhilarated
word: exuberant
word: exultant
word: fat and happy
word: gassed
word: gay
word: gayful
word: glad
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: gleesome
word: happy
word: hearty
word: high on life
word: jovial
word: joyful
word: merry
word: merry as a cricket
word: merry as a grig
word: mirthsome
word: on cloud nine
word: overjoyed
word: overjoyous
word: over the moon
word: pacific
word: perky
word: placated
word: pleased
word: satisfied
word: thrilled
word: tickled pink
word: triumphant
word: vivacious
word: wealful
word: happy as a clam
word: happy as a clam at high water
word: happy as a lark
word: happy as a pig in mud
word: happy as a pig in shit
word: happy as a prince
word: happy as Larry
word: happy as the day is long
word: air-headed
word: blissed out
word: blissful
word: cock-a-hoop
word: delighted
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: exultant
word: filled with happiness
word: giddy
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: greatly pleased
word: joyful
word: joyous
word: lighthearted
word: orgasmic
word: on cloud nine
word: over the moon
word: overjoyed
word: thrilled
word: walking on air
glosses: Very happy.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1616, Daniel Dyke, “The Historie of Christs Temptation”, in Two Treatises, London: Ralph Mab, pages 211–212:
glosses: Overly happy.