v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enjoyed p. pr. & vb. n. Enjoying. ] [ OF. enjoier to receive with joy; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F. joie joy: cf. OF. enjoir to enjoy. See Joy. ] 1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty. [ 1913 Webster ]

That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Num. xxxvi. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Heb. xi. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have sexual intercourse with. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enjoys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hope of everlasting enjoyments. Glanvill.

Syn. -- Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification; fruition; happiness; felicity; delight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. joye, OF. joye, joie, goie, F. joie, L. gaudia, pl. of gaudium joy, fr. gaudere to rejoice, to be glad; cf. Gr. gai`ein to rejoice, gay^ros proud. Cf. Gaud, Jewel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame. Heb. xii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tears of true joy for his return. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which causes joy or happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

For ye are our glory and joy. 1 Thess. ii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such joy made Una, when her knight she found. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The roofs with joy resound. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Joy is used in composition, esp. with participles, to from many self-explaining compounds; as, joy-bells, joy-bringing, joy-inspiring, joy-resounding, etc.

Syn. -- Gladness; pleasure; delight; happiness; exultation; transport; felicity; ecstasy; rapture; bliss; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity; hilarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Joyed p. pr. & vb. n. Joying. ] [ OF. joir, F. jouir. See Joy, n. ] To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will joy in the God of my salvation. Hab. iii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

In whose sight all things joy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To give joy to; to congratulate. [ Obs. ] “Joy us of our conquest.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To enjoy. [ Obs. ] See Enjoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. joiance. ] Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some days of joyance are decreed to all. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

From what hid fountains doth thy joyance flow? Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Joyance. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. “Joyful tidings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

My soul shall be joyful in my God. Is. lxi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. Pope.

-- Joy"ful*ly, adv. -- Joy"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the emotion of great happiness.
Syn. -- joy, joyousness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. -- Joy"less*ly, adv. -- Joy"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] pining for the lass,
Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. joyous, joious, joios, F. joyeux.See Joy. ] Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is this your joyous city? Is. xxiii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

They all as glad as birds of joyous prime. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

And joyous of our conquest early won. Dryden.

Syn. -- Merry; lively; blithe; gleeful; gay; glad; mirthful; sportive; festive; joyful; happy; blissful; charming; delightful.

-- Joy"ous*ly, adv. -- Joy"ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing joyfulness. [ R. ]
Syn. -- gladsome, delightful. [ 1913 Webster ]

This all joysome grove. T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person; a spoilsport. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excessive joy; transport. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To enjoy anew. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Renewed enjoyment. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. Enjoyment of one's self; self-satisfaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

See high.
See honorable.
See hopeful.
See hostile.
See hurt.
See hhurtful.
See hygienic.
See ideal.
See idle.
See illusory.
See imaginable.
See imaginative.
See immortal.
See implicit.
See important.
See impressible. See >Unimpressible.
See impressionable.
See improvable.
See impugnable.
See incidental.
See increasable.
See indifferent.
See indulgent.
See industrious.
See inflammable.
See influential.
See ingenious.
See ingenuous.
See inhabitable.
See injurious.
See inquisitive.
See instructive.
See intelligent.
See intelligible.
See intentional.
See interesting.
See interpretable.
See inventive.
See investigable.
See jealous.
See joyful.
See joyous.
See justifiable.
See kingly.
See knightly.
See knotty.
See knowable.
See laborious.
See ladylike.
See level.
See libidinous.
See lightsome.
See limber.
See lineal.
See logical.
See lordly.
See losable.
See lovable.
See lucent.
See luminous.
See lustrous.
See lusty.
See maidenly.
See makable.
See malleable.
See manageable.
See manful.
See manlike.
See manly.
See marketable.
See marriable.
See marriageable.
See marvelous.
See masculine.
See matchable.
See matronlike.
See meek.
See meet.
See melodious.
See mendable.
See mentionable.
See mercenary.
See merciable.
See meritable.
See merry.
See metaphorical.
See mighty.
See mild.
See military.
See mindful.
See mingleable.
See miraculous.
See miry.
See mitigable.
See modifiable.
See modish.
See moist.
See monkish.
See motherly.
See muscular.
See musical.
See mysterious.
See namable.
See native.
See navigable.
See needful.
See negotiable.
See niggard.
See noble.
See objectionable.
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See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]