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full of happiness and joy — typically because of some triumph or success- Her jubilant teammates mobbed her and lifted her into the air.
jubilant = full of happiness and joy
- He discovered nothing; and she went home jubilant, and dropped all concern about the matter permanently out of her mind.Twain, Mark -- Pudd'n'head Wilson
- Jem picked up a rock and threw it jubilantly at the carhouse.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- He had expected to hear cheer of triumph and jubilation at his death,J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- The Cadillac arrived, and the jubilant minister decided to take the gas guzzler for a spin.John Hersey -- Hiroshima
- But he knew his days at Trinity would be numbered if he walked into that group of jubilant guys and told them to erase the fifty beside his name.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- I felt their arms around my neck, their hugs and the marvelous jubilation of reunion.John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
- "That's six days from now," he said in a jubilant voice.Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows
- (Throwing back her head with jubilance) Praise God!Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
- But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Father was jubilant, but Ernest was alarmed.London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
- Pollyanna's jubilant voice turned to one of distressed appeal.Porter, Eleanor H. -- Pollyanna
- The plot was ripe for execution, and one of the conspirators was merry and jubilant, while the other was very nervous and troubled.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Beyond the City
- The Professor smiled, and looked quite jubilant.Stoker, Bram -- Dracula
- —they were everywhere; they swept back and forth across the river constantly, and their jubilant music was never stilled.Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
- It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
- I remember how jubilant Markham was at securing a new photograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days.Wells, H.G. -- The War Of The Worlds
- The robins were singing vespers in the high treetops, filling the golden air with their jubilant voices.Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne of The Island
- The backers of Cherokee waxed jubilant and offered ridiculous odds.London, Jack -- White Fang
- We were all jubilant.London, Jack -- Tales of the Fish Patrol
jubilantly = joyfully
jubilation = high-spirited delight
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
jubilant = full of high-spirited delight
jubilant = high-spirited and delighted
jubilation = high-spirited delight
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
jubilant = full of high-spirited delight
jubilance = happiness and joy
jubilant = full of high-spirited delight
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