rejoices

Feels great delight

Rejoices is the third-person singular of rejoice, meaning to feel or express great joy or delight.

Someone rejoices when they celebrate good news or take pleasure in favorable outcomes: The whole town rejoices when the team wins.

The word carries a formal or elevated tone, appearing often in religious contexts: Heaven rejoices over one sinner who repents.

celebrates

exults

Feels triumphant joy

revels · glories · basks · savors · applauds · toasts · commemorates · honors · praises · extols

emotions

elation

Intense triumphant joy

glee · mirth · exhilaration · euphoria · rapture · gladness · delight · joy · happiness · cheerfulness

expressions

beams

Rays or supports

  • grinsWide, toothy smiles
  • smilesPleased facial expressions
  • laughsVocal expressions of amusement

chuckles · giggles · whoops · crows · glows · radiates · sparkles · shines · brightens · lights up

Opposites
emotional response to events

rejoicesmourns

Grieves for the dead

grieves · laments · sorrows · weeps · despairs

social/communal expression

rejoicesmourns

Grieves for the dead

laments · keens · eulogizes · elegizes · commiserates

Family

rejoicing, rejoice, rejoiced, rejoicer, rejoicings

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G