Synonyms and Antonyms of joyful
- the news of the child's safe return made us all joyful
beaming, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, gay, gladsome, lighthearted, sunny, upbeat
gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merry, mirthful, smiling
beatific, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, intoxicated, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical)
abject, aggrieved, anguished, blue, brokenhearted, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, melancholy
doleful, dolorous, lachrymose, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, sorry, woeful
black, dark, desolate, dispirited, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), grieved, heartbroken, heartsick, miserable, woebegone, wretched