Synonyms and Antonyms of joyous
- a joyous crowd eagerly awaiting the countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve
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