overjoyed

comparative more overjoyed · superlative most overjoyed

1. Very happy.

   After a long, arduous trek, we were overjoyed to catch sight of our destination at last.

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   Fans were overjoyed at / by the sight of their team handing the visitors such a decisive defeat.

   The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being overjoyed with finding a birds’ nest, shows it his companion, and he steals it.

   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]

   They were most agreeably surprised to see me, and I quite overjoyed at meeting with them.

   1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, volume 2, London: for the author, page 85

   Olaf was overjoyed, for the power of evil beings ceases when their name is known.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 117

   Diana was not the most discerning of mortals, but just at this moment it struck her that Anne was not looking exactly overjoyed.

   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

   Synonyms: exuberant, joyful, berserk, blissed out, blithe, buoyant, chirpy, blithesome

2. obsoleteOverly 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.

   1616, Daniel Dyke, “The Historie of Christs Temptation”, in Two Treatises, London: Ralph Mab, pages 211–212

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of overjoy