noun · informal
joy
/dʒɔɪ/JOY
Band 5-6speakingtask2
a feeling of great pleasure and happiness
Examples
“The children's laughter brought joy to the room.”
“She found joy in small, everyday things.”
“The festival was a source of joy for the community.”
Band 8 sentence
“Policies that improve community cohesion can increase the small, ordinary joys in people's lives.”
Collocations
- bring joy
- simple joys
- joyful occasion
Word family
joy noun/verbjoyful adjectivejoyless adjectivejoyfully adverbjoyfulness noun
Common mistakes
I feel joy when I passed the exam.→I felt joy when I passed the exam. / I felt joyful when I passed the exam.
She is very joyfulful today.→She is very joyful today.
Say it for a higher band
5happy→6pleasure→7+joy
Synonyms
happiness
delight
Easily confused
happy
“She was happy to see her old friend again.”
Related words
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In -ful / -less
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