overjoyed

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overjoyed

  • /ˌoʊvɚˈd͡ʒɔɪd/ US
  • /ˌəʊvəˈd͡ʒɔɪd/ UK

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adjective more overjoyed · most overjoyed

  1. Very happy. Fans were overjoyed at / by the sight of their team handing the visitors such a decisive defeat.
  2. obsolete Overly happy. 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.

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of overjoy

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