(v. t.) To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.
(n.) Excessive joy; transport.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are overjoyed for Ashley and her fiancée, and we wish them the very best."
(2) The new MP, Marsha de Cordova, sounded overjoyed, after what was widely regarded as an especially energetic campaign.
(3) Mark Sampson was overjoyed to see his Lionesses become the first England team of either gender to reach a World Cup semi final since Sir Bobby Robson’s side reached the last four at Italia 90.
(4) US congressman Luis Gutiérrez celebrated Obama’s decision on Tuesday, saying in a statement, “I am overjoyed and overwhelmed with emotion.
(5) Lionaid, a UK-based charity that is calling for the UK to follow suit with a ban on lion trophy imports, said it was “overjoyed” by the move.
(6) We are absolutely overjoyed to bring Siem to the club because he will give us intelligence in the final third and create goalscoring situations, which we lacked towards the end of last season,” the Newcastle manager, Alan Pardew, said.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest World Cup 2014: Brazil fans overjoyed by win over Cameroon – video There is still work to do and Chile will take encouragement from the way that Cameroon opened Brazil up in the opening 45 minutes, when the defensive limitations of Dani Alves were once again exposed.
(8) Tell them their work was about to disappear from that conversation without the production of a credit card, and they would not be overjoyed unless they knew it was the only answer in business terms.
(9) Informing Mo Yan of his win today, Englund said the author, who was at the home in China where he lives with his 90-year-old father – was "overjoyed and scared".
(10) Yet most US eco-campaigners were overjoyed by Chu's appointment last year.
(11) And Tony Abbott must’ve been overjoyed to discover he could saddle Turnbull with the most difficult and absurd portfolio to sell – opposing the hugely popular and globally applauded National Broadband Network (NBN).
(12) Critics said it was too low to be a true living wage , but IDS was overjoyed.
(13) I spoke to them them this afternoon, and they were just overjoyed.
(14) Mark Roberts, chief superintendent with the local Trafford police force, admits he was not overjoyed when he heard the Warehouse Project was upping sticks from its old location in the city centre to a site near the Old Trafford football ground in his district last year.
(15) No one is more overjoyed than a lightly regulated building industry.
(16) The outside world, overjoyed by the election of America’s first black president just eight years ago, is asking: how did it come to this?
(17) I’m sure Angela Merkel must have been overjoyed, but it strikes me that if the main thrust of economic policy is that the rest of Europe deflates against an already competitive Germany, then the outlook for Europe is grim indeed.
(18) If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” said Francis shortly after his election and the liberal commentariat was overjoyed.
(19) Jennifer Lawrence, who was nominated for best actress for the third time for Joy, the biopic of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano, said: “I am beyond grateful and humbled by this nomination ... For me, working with David O. Russell has been nothing short of extraordinary, and I share this nomination with him as well as our incredible supporting cast.” Brie Larson, also nominated for best actress for Room, tweeted that she was “overjoyed”.
(20) I am overjoyed to finally have an answer and a treatment, but also sad about the opportunities not taken and times with friends and family that I have missed.
Rejoice
Definition:
(v. i.) To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.
(v. t.) To enjoy.
(v. t.) To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden.
(n.) The act of rejoicing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(2) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
(3) The markets went quiet, Spain, Italy, and Ireland rejoiced, as Draghi emphasised for the third time in six weeks that the euro is irreversible.
(4) Yet while our national income is almost back to where it was before the crisis (rejoice!
(5) The over-50s, rejoicing in the untaxed capital gains they enjoy from buying property a generation ago, will help their own kids, but are not asked to help anyone else’s.
(6) Green campaigners were rejoicing over the departure of the climate sceptic, while the National Farmers' Union was downcast at the exit of a cabinet minister who consistently stuck up for rural areas.
(7) He sounds, as it were, the fatal bottom of our organic existence, and yet claims not merely to accept the universe, as another Transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, put it, but to rejoice in it.
(8) Allowed to play, Alan Pardew having opted against recalling the out-of-favour Mile Jedinak to anchor his midfield, the visitors rejoiced.
(9) In an interview on his 90th birthday, he was asked if he had rejoiced at the news.
(10) "I think Africans rejoicing at his making it to office came from the need for a psychological boost as well as an indication of Africans buying into the American dream – that one's roots can be African and one can succeed in life, with those roots.
(11) As a Guardian writer, I should rejoice at the added readers and influence we will get (though all these challenges are ours, too).
(12) Northerners, it seems, are expected to rejoice at the fact they can commute to well-paying jobs in the south-east without having to up sticks.
(13) In the fevered Daily Mail version, this fact suggests a nefarious and hyperactive court, up to mischief and rejoicing in 'overruling' national authorities, better to promote the interests of sex offenders and the homicidal.
(14) "Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand," she said in an interview with a Christian radio station.
(15) However, it is still early for us to rejoice knowing that China is not heeding the ruling.
(16) Greeks,” he said, “should rejoice.” The government that had put the country through an assault course of austerity would soon be over.
(17) The home crowd were silenced, the Irish players rejoiced.
(18) He taught us so much about seizing opportunities and rejoicing in everything life could offer, no matter how small.” Hett’s friend Christina wrote that her heart was “broken into a million pieces” at the loss of “my best friend, my maid of honour”.
(19) The protesters, including a choir singing the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah, rejoiced at his departure.
(20) Until recently, most self-respecting rock bohemians would stay at the dilapidated but charming Chelsea, where they would rejoice in being shouted at by the manager for daring to ask to have the room where Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen.