Antonyms for joying

Grammar : Verb

Spell : joi

Phonetic Transcription : dʒɔɪ

be sad

Definition of joying

Origin : c.1200, "feeling of pleasure and delight;" c.1300, "source of pleasure or happiness," from Old French joie (11c.), from Latin gaudia, plural of gaudium "joy," from gaudere "rejoice," from PIE root *gau- "to rejoice" (cf. Greek gaio "I rejoice," Middle Irish guaire "noble"). Joy-riding is American English, 1908.

As in rejoice : verb be very happy about something

Example sentences :

Yes, they were wolves leaping at the throat of her father, and joying in the defeat of Lucretia.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

Good cause she had for joying / o'er all her friends escaped from harm.
Extract from : « The Nibelungenlied » by Unknown

Waldron smiled, evilly, joying in this abject fear of his hated partner.
Extract from : « The Air Trust » by George Allan England

He remembered releasing his grandfather's cage-birds, and joying in the wild swoops of their recovered liberty.
Extract from : « The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci » by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

He listened eagerly, with receptive ears, lying on his back and looking up and joying in each movement of her lips as she talked.
Extract from : « Martin Eden » by Jack London

Joying in his freedom, eager to meet the newer phases of Californian life under the stars and stripes, Valois rides along.
Extract from : « The Little Lady of Lagunitas » by Richard Henry Savage

The wicked scion of the Purdee house, joying to note how true his shaft had sped, was again fitting his bow.
Extract from : « The Riddle Of The Rocks » by Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

Joying that her father had yielded, he ran forward till he saw Ruth's tears.
Extract from : « Old Man Savarin and Other Stories » by Edward William Thomson

He was still on the whole a most cheerful Christian, joying and rejoicing in the hope of a blessed immortality.
Extract from : « The Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden » by Samuel Marsden

To meet his friends the monarch / rode out in mickle glee: In joying now was ended / all his full great anxiety.
Extract from : « The Nibelungenlied » by Unknown

Synonyms for joying

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