joyful, adj. 1. glad, delighted, pleased, gratified, Inf. tickled or tickled pink; happy, blessed, contented, blissful; jubilant, exultant, gleeful, exhilarated, enthused, excited, animated, sparkling; elated, overjoyed, beside oneself with joy, thrilled, in seventh heaven, SI. flying high; enraptured, Literary, raptured, rapturous, ravished, transported, carried away.
2. gay, joyous, full of joy, cheerful, cheery, sunny, bright, optimistic, upbeat, positive; blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, buoyant, in good or high spirits; jocund, jovial, merry, jolly, mirthful, laughing, riant, smiling, hilarious.
3. gladsome, good, pleasing, gratifying, rewarding; heartwarming, cheering, reassuring, comforting, heartening, encouraging, uplifting; delightful, agreeable, pleasant.
joyless, adj. 1. unhappy, dejected, depressed, down, downcast, downhearted; disheartened, dispirited, discouraged, despondent, down in the mouth; sad, melancholy, plaintive, wistful; sorrowful, grief-stricken, afflicted, saddened, heavy-hearted, disconsolate; grievous, dolorous, doleful, mournful, rueful, lugubrious, funereal; morose, gloomy, saturnine, glum, cheerless, sullen; somber, solemn, grave, serious, tragic; miserable, wretched, woeful, woebegone, inconsolable; heartsick, heartsore, aching, grieving, mourning, lamenting, weeping, tearful, lachrymose.
2. gloomy, drab, dreary, dull, depressing, dismal; bleak, cold, comfortless, barren, grim, austere; forlorn, desolate, lonely, deserted, empty, abandoned, uninviting; dark, somber, sunless, lightless, murky, dingy.
jubilance, n. exultation, triumph; overjoyedness, elation, joy; ecstasy, rhapsody. See jubilation {def. 1).
jubilant, adj. rejoicing, exultant, triumphant, triumphal, on top of the world; overjoyed, elated, exhilarated, thrilled, excited, beside oneself, jumping for joy, in high spirits, flushed. Inf. tickled pink; ecstatic, euphoric, transported, delirious, rhapsodic, rapturous, enraptured, Literary, raptured, ravished, on cloud nine, in seventh heaven, walking on air, in orbit, flying, Elysian, Dial, in hog heaven, Dial, in high cotton; joyful, joyous, blissful, delighted, pleased, happy as a lark or king or clam, happy, glad, gladsome, sunny, bright, beaming, in good spirits, in a good mood, in high or fine feather; gay, jocund, gleeful, cheerful, riant, merry, mirthful, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, light-hearted.
jubilate, v. 1. rejoice, exult, triumph, glory, be on top of the world; crow, sing about, sing with joy or delight, express one's pleasure, clap one's hands over, hug oneself over, jump for joy, skip or dance with joy or delight; delight, joy, beam, be delighted or joyful or glad, be happy as a lark or king or clam; be elated, be in high spirits, be exhilarated, be in transport, be in ecstasy, be in seventh heaven, be on cloud nine, be in orbit, Dial, be in hog heaven, Dial, be in high cotton.
2. celebrate, have a celebration, throw a party, party, make merry, revel, rollick, frolic.