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rejoicingadjective having or expressing feelings of joy or triumphthe rejoicing parents of the bride cock-a-hoop, crank(chiefly dialect), crowing, exultant, exulting, glorying, jubilant, prideful, proud, triumphant ecstatic, elated, euphoricarrogant, boastful, cockyconquering, victorious, winning crestfallen, defeated, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited, downcast rejoicingnounjoyful or festive activitythere was great rejoicing at the launch party for the book conviviality, festivity, gaiety(also gayety), jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, reveling(or revelling), revelry, whoopee carousal, carousedelight, diversion, entertainment, fun, mischief, pleasure, recreation, riotcheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, joviality, merriness, mirth, mirthfulnesscarnival, celebration, festival, party, revelfrolicking, gamboling(or gambolling), rollicking, rompingenjoyment, happiness, joybinge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, spreebuffoonery, clownery, clownishness, flippancy, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness, zaniness blackness, darkness, dolefulness, dolor, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartsickness, miserableness, misery, mournfulness, mourning, woe, wretchednessdejection, depression, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dumps, forlornness, joylessness, melancholy, sorrow, unhappiness rejoicingverbpresent participle of rejoiceto feel or express joy or triumphrejoiced over our unexpected victory on the soccer field crowing, delighting, exuberating, exulting, glorying, joying, jubilating, kvelling, triumphing gloating, preening, swellingboasting, braggingflaunting, parading, showing off, strutting, swaggering kicking up one's heels bemoaning, bewailing, grieving, lamenting, regretting, weeping to give satisfaction tonews of the enemy's surrender rejoiced a nation weary of war agreeing (with), contenting, delighting, feasting, gassing(slang), gladdening, gladding(archaic), gratifying, pleasing, pleasuring, satisfying, suiting, warming appeasing, mollifying, pacifying, placating, soothingassuaging, quenching, satiating, satingexciting, tickling, titillatingamusing, diverting, entertaining, treatingcaptivating, charminggalvanizing, thrillingcalming, comfortingcatering (to), humoring, indulgingcoddling, mollycoddling, pampering, spoiling displeasing aggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, crossing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, perturbing, piquing, putting out, ruffling, vexingangering, enraging, incensing, inflaming(also enflaming), infuriating, maddening, outraging, rankling, riling, roiling, steaming upprovoking, rousingagitating, distressing, disturbing, fretting, upsettingharassing, harrying, pesteringaffronting, insulting, offending in the 14th century |