Emotions

Synonyms for joy

Synonyms for joy: delight and pleasure. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for joy

Interchangeable with joy in this sense

Audited under joy's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one joy carries in that sense.

delightnoun, in the sense "a feeling of great happiness"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name joy as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

pleasurepleasure is a noun in the sense "something or someone that provides a source of happiness"

The first group is filed under joy's own sense. The second reaches joy from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsEmotions

a feeling of great happiness

Watching her daughter take her first steps filled her with joy.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

delight

Same sentence, swapped: Watching her daughter take her first steps filled her with delight.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

sorrow
boredom
suspicion

Where joy turns up in the game

joy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play joy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so joy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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heavyadjectivethreateningdarkened by cloudsFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line hopeverbtrustexpect and wishFoothillsHas a reason line hopefuladjectiveoptimisticfeeling or expressing optimism about a future outcomeFoothillsHas a reason line jealousadjectiveenviousfeeling resentful envy of someone's achievements or advantagesFoothillsHas a reason line qualmnounmisgivingan uneasy feeling of doubt about whether an action is rightRidgelineHas a reason line quietadjectivestillfree from disturbance by heavy wavesFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line ragenouncultan interest followed with exaggerated zealTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line commandverb, nouncontrolexercise authoritative control or power overFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

The wrong tile gets explained too

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