overjoy
to cause to feel great joy or delight; elate: It overjoys me to hear of your good fortune. I was overjoyed at her safe arrival.
Origin of overjoy
1Other words from overjoy
- o·ver·joyed, adjective
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How to use overjoy in a sentence
Chrissy Sebald, a soccer coach and foster parent, was overjoyed last year with the district’s decision to give a free meal to all students.
A school district opted out of a free meals program, saying students could ‘become spoiled’ | María Paúl | August 27, 2021 | Washington PostHBCU advocates were overjoyed not only at the amount of money but at the vote of confidence in their work.
‘Transformational’: MacKenzie Scott’s gifts to HBCUs, other colleges surpass $800 million | Nick Anderson, Lauren Lumpkin | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostI have had the Honour to be known to that Prelate a long time, and was overjoy'd at the opportunity of paying my respects to him.
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I | Karl Ludwig von PllnitzI was overjoy'd to be of this Party, because I had never yet travell'd this Way.
The Travels and Adventures of James Massey | Simon Tyssot de PatotWe were overjoy'd at this Deliverance, which we had Reason to think a happy one.
The Travels and Adventures of James Massey | Simon Tyssot de Patot
His overjoy at obtaining liberty, after so long a struggle for it, led to his excesses and his ruin.
Among the Pines | James R. GilmoreWell—I am strangely overjoy'd at his coming—never to be sure was anything so damn'd unlucky!
The School For Scandal | Richard Brinsley Sheridan
British Dictionary definitions for overjoy
/ (ˌəʊvəˈdʒɔɪ) /
(tr) to give great delight to
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