overjoyed

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overjoyed (comparative more overjoyed, superlative most overjoyed)

  1. Very happy.
    Fans were overjoyed at / by the sight of their team handing the visitors such a decisive defeat.
    After a long, arduous trek, we were overjoyed to catch sight of our destination at last.
  2. (obsolete) Overly happy.
    • 1616, Daniel Dyke, “The Historie of Christs Temptation”, in Two Treatises[3], London: Ralph Mab, pages 211–212:
      Which must teach vs not to be ouer-ioyed with any of Gods fauours, and honours, but euen then to thinke of, and to prepare for some following after-claps, and as contentedly to endure the one, as cheerefully receiue the other.

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overjoyed

  1. simple past and past participle of overjoy