Joy

Definition

joy / dʒↄÇ / n ၁။ [U] ဝမ္းသာျခင္း။ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ျခင္း။ the sheer joy of being with her again ❍ be overcome with joy ❍ dance/ jump/ shout for joy (ie because of feeling great joy). ၂။ [C] ေပ်ာ္စရာ။ အားရစရာ။ အရသာ။ the joys of fatherhood ❍ The match was a joy to watch. ၃။ [U] ( Brit infml ) (esp in questions and negative sentences) ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ။ ေက်နပ္မႈ။ We complained about our rooms but got no joy from the manager. ❍ 'Any joy at the shops?' 'No, they didn't have what I wanted. ' ❏ joyful / -fl / adj ေပ်ာ္စရာ။ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ဖြယ္။ joyful celebrations ❍ on this joyful occasion. ❏ joyfully / -fǝli / adv ရႊင္ရႊင္ျမဴးျမဴး။ ဝမ္းသာအားရ။ laugh joyfully. ❏ joyless adj စိတ္မခ်မ္းသာရေသာ။ a joyless marriage. ❏ joyous / 'dʒↄÇǝs / adj ( fml ) ေပ်ာ္စရာရႊင္စရာ။ ဝမ္းေျမာက္ ဖြယ္။ a joyous occasion ❍ in joyous anticipation. ❏ joyously adv ရႊင္ရႊင္ျမဴးျမဴး။ ဝမ္းသာအားရ။

Examples

1. There were tears of joy in her eyes.
2. [do something with/for joy] : Penny could have shouted with joy.
3. [joy at (doing) something] : He could hardly contain his joy at seeing her again.
4. [to someone’s joy] : To my joy
5. the meeting was cancelled.
6. [the joy of (doing) something] : Discover the joys of skiing.
7. [be a joy to do something] : It was a real joy to see the children playing happily together at last.
8. [sheer joy] : Jonathan flies for the sheer joy of exploring what he can do.
9. [a joy to watch] : Her delight was a joy to watch.
10. Have you had any joy getting someone to fix your central heating?
11. I tried to call her earlier
12. but no joy.