Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aggrace | (Spenser) to please, gratify. |
| aggrate | (Spenser) to please, gratify. |
| ananda | (Sanskrit) extreme happiness. |
| beatific | making supremely happy. |
| beatifical | making supremely happy. |
| beatifically | (Adv.) BEATIFIC, making blessed. |
| beatitude | a state of blessedness. |
| beglad | to make glad. |
| bliss | the highest happiness; (verb) to experience or produce ecstasy. |
| blissful | very happy. |
| blissfully | (Adv.) BLISSFUL, very happy. |
| blissfulness | the state of being blissful. |
| blithe | merry. |
| blitheful | joyous. |
| blithely | (Adv.) BLITHE, merry. |
| blitheness | the state of being blithe. |
| blithesome | gay, merry. |
| blithesomely | (Adv.) BLITHESOME, gay, merry. |
| blithesomeness | the state of being blithesome. |
| cadgy | (Scots) brisk, cheerful. |
| cantily | (Adv.) CANTY, contented. |
| canty | (Scots) contented. |
| carefree | being without worry or anxiety. |
| cheerful | full of cheer. |
| cheerfully | (Adv.) CHEERFUL, full of cheer. |
| cheerfulness | the state of being cheerful. |
| cheerily | (Adv.) CHEERY, cheerful. |
| cheeriness | the state of being cheery. |
| cheery | cheerful. |
| chirpily | (Adv.) CHIRPY, cheerful. |
| chirpiness | the state of being chirpy. |
| chirpy | cheerful. |
| chirrupy | cheerful. |
| content | happy with one's lot (verb) to satisfy |
| contently | (Adv.) CONTENT, happy with one's lot. |
| contentment | the state of being contented. |
| crunked | in a state of excitement or exhilaration. |
| delectate | to delight. |
| delectation | delight, enjoyment. |
| delight | great pleasure; (verb) to give great pleasure to. |
| delightedly | (Adv.) DELIGHTED. |
| delightedness | the state of being delighted. |
| delighter | one who delights. |
| ecstasis | ecstasy. |
| ecstasise | to be ecstatic. |
| ecstasize | to be ecstatic. |
| ecstasy | a state of exalted pleasure or happiness; (verb) to send into a state of ecstasy. |
| ecstatic | very happy (noun) an ecstatic person |
| ecstatically | (Adv.) ECSTATIC, very happy. |
| elate | to raise the spirits of. |
| elatedly | (Adv.) ELATED, joyous. |
| elatedness | the state of being elated. |
| elation | a feeling of great joy. |
| emparadise | (Milton) to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. |
| encheer | (Arch.) to cheer or comfort. |
| enrapture | to delight. |
| enravish | to transport with delight; to enrapture. |
| entrancingly | (Adv.) ENTRANCING. |
| eudaemony | happiness or wellbeing. |
| euphoria | an exaggerated feeling of wellbeing. |
| euphoric | overjoyed. |
| euphorically | (Adv.) EUPHORIC, overjoyed. |
| euphory | an exaggerated feeling of wellbeing. |
| euthymia | a pleasant state of mind. |
| exhilarant | exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure; (noun) an exhilarant medicine. |
| exhilarate | to make cheerful and excited. |
| exhilaratingly | (Adv.) EXHILARATING. |
| exhilarative | tending to exhilarate. |
| exhilarator | one who exhilarates. |
| extasy | (Obs.) ecstasy. |
| extatic | (Obs.) ecstatic. |
| exuberance | the state of being exuberant. |
| exuberancy | the state of being exuberant. |
| exuberant | luxuriant, overflowing. |
| exuberate | to be exuberant. |
| exult | to rejoice greatly. |
| exultance | exultation. |
| exultancy | exultation. |
| exultant | exulting. |
| exultantly | (Adv.) EXULTANT, exulting. |
| exultation | the act of exulting. |
| exultingly | (Adv.) EXULTING. |
| fain | happy; inclined; pleased (verb, Spenser) to feign |
| fainly | (Adv.) FAIN, glad. |
| fainness | gladness, readiness to do something. |
| feastful | (Arch.) festive; joyful. |
| feelgood | relating to a feeling of personal wellbeing. |
| felicific | producing happiness. |
| felicitate | to congratulate. |
| felicitous | happy; prosperous. |
| felicitously | (Adv.) FELICITOUS. |
| felicity | happiness; aptness. |
| fortunise | to make happy or fortunate. |
| fortunize | (Spenser) to make fortunate or happy. |
| gaiety | festive activity. |
| gayety | festive activity. |
| gayly | (Adv.) GAY, cheerful. |
| gaysome | full of gaiety. |
| gelastic | relating to or provoking laughter. |
| geniality | the quality of being genial. |
| glad | joyful (verb, obs.) to make glad |
| gladden | to make glad. |
| gladdener | one who gladdens. |
| gladful | (Arch.) full of gladness; joyful. |
| gladfulness | (Arch.) the quality of being gladful. |
| gladly | (Adv.) GLAD, joyful. |
| gladness | the state of being glad. |
| gladsome | (Arch.) glad, joyous. |
| gladsomely | (Adv.) GLADSOME, glad, joyous. |
| gladsomeness | (Arch.) the state of being gladsome. |
| gleeful | merry, full of glee. |
| gleefully | (Adv.) GLEEFUL, merry, full of glee. |
| gleefulness | the state of being gleeful. |
| gleesome | (Arch.) gleeful. |
| gratulant | expressing joy or satisfaction; congratulatory. |
| gratulation | congratulation. |
| guidwillie | (Scots) cordial, cheering. |
| happily | (Adv.) HAPPY, contented. |
| happiness | the state of being happy. |
| happy | contented (verb, Shakesp.) to make happy |
| heartsome | exhilarating; merry. |
| heartsomely | (Adv.) HEARTSOME, exhilarating; merry. |
| hilariousness | the state of being hilarious. |
| hilarity | noisy merriment. |
| imparadise | to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. |
| insouciant | lighthearted and unconcerned. |
| insouciantly | (Adv.) INSOUCIANT, lighthearted and unconcerned. |
| jocoseness | the quality of being jocose. |
| jocosity | cheerfulness. |
| jocularity | jesting, merriment. |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness > JOCUNDER, JOCUNDEST. |
| jocundity | joyfulness. |
| jocundly | (Adv.) JOCUND, joyful. |
| jocundness | the state of being jocund. |
| jollier | a joker. |
| jolliment | (Spenser) jollity. |
| jolliness | the state of being jolly. |
| jollity | mirth. |
| jollyhead | (Spenser) jollity. |
| jouisance | (Spenser) joyousness. |
| jouysaunce | (Spenser) joyousness. |
| jovial | good-humoured. |
| joviality | the state of being jovial. |
| jovially | (Adv.) JOVIAL, good-humoured. |
| jovialness | noisy mirth, joviality. |
| jovialty | the state of being jovial. |
| jovysaunce | (Spenser) joyousness. |
| joy | gladness; (verb, obs.) to rejoice. |
| joyance | delight. |
| joyful | full of joy. |
| joyfully | (Adv.) JOYFUL, full of joy. |
| joyfulness | the state of being joyful. |
| joyous | joyful. |
| joyously | (Adv.) JOYOUS, joyful. |
| joyousness | the state of being joyous. |
| jubilance | jubilation. |
| jubilancy | jubilation. |
| jubilant | exultant. |
| jubilantly | (Adv.) JUBILANT, exultant. |
| jubilate | to rejoice. |
| jubilation | an act of rejoicing. |
| kidgie | (Scots) brisk, cheerful. |
| krunked | in a state of excitement or exhilaration. |
| kvell | (Yiddish) to be happy. |
| leve | (Arch.) gladly; (noun) a beloved. |
| levity | light-heartedness. |
| lief | (Arch.) soon, gladly (noun) beloved |
| liefly | (Adv.) LIEF, gladly. |
| macarise | to declare to be happy or blessed. |
| macarism | a beatitude; taking pleasure in another's joy. |
| macarize | to declare to be happy or blessed. |
| merrie | (Arch.) merry. |
| merriment | gaiety with laughter and noise. |
| merriness | the state of being merry. |
| mirthful | full of mirth. |
| mirthfully | (Adv.) MIRTHFUL, full of mirth. |
| overglad | excessively or unduly glad. |
| overhappy | exceedingly happy. |
| overjoy | to please greatly. |
| overmerry | excessively merry. |
| perkiness | the state of being perky. |
| raptly | (Adv.) RAPT, absorbed. |
| raptness | the state of being rapt. |
| rapture | extreme delight; (verb) to enrapture. |
| rapturise | to put, or be put, in a state of rapture. |
| rapturize | to put, or be put, in a state of rapture. |
| rapturous | in a state of rapture. |
| rapturously | (Adv.) RAPTUROUS, in a state of rapture. |
| rapturousness | the state of being rapturous. |
| regale | to delight. |
| rejoice | to feel joyful. |
| rejoiceful | joyous, full of rejoicing. |
| rejoicement | the act of rejoicing. |
| rejoicer | one who rejoices. |
| rejoicingly | (Adv.) REJOICING. |
| rident | laughing, cheerful. |
| schadenfreude | (Ger.) enjoyment gained from others' troubles. |
| seely | fortunate, happy, good; simple, innocent. |
| sele | happiness, good fashion. |
| seraphic | of or like a seraph. |
| seraphically | (Adv.) SERAPHIC, serene, angelic. |
| unjoyful | not joyful. |
| unjoyous | not joyous. |
| upcheer | to cheer up. |