overjoy

Verb

Verb Forms: overjoyed, overjoying, overjoys

• To fill someone with intense happiness.
• cause to feel extremely joyful or happy
  • "the economic growth overjoyed the German industry"
• To give great joy, delight or pleasure to.
• To give too much joy to.
• To take too much pleasure (in something).

Noun

• Very great joy.
• Excessive joy.

Examples

• Finding a triple word score for ’Q’ and ’Z’ would utterly overjoy any Scrabble enthusiast.
• The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me.

Synonyms

ecstasy