1. Full of or characterized by joy
   "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter"

See also: cock-a-hoop [informal], ecstatic, elated, enrapt, enraptured, festal [archaic], festive, gay, gleeful, gleesome [archaic], happy, jocund [formal], jolly, jovial, joyful, jubilant, merry, mirthful, on top of the world [informal], rapt, rapturous, rhapsodic, rhapsodical

Antonym: joyless

Encyclopedia: Joyous