Meaning & use
overjoyed
Extremely happy or delighted about something.
See it in a sentence
She was overjoyed when she found out she had been accepted into the program.
The whole family was overjoyed to welcome the new baby home.
A note on using this word
Overjoyed is a strong, absolute adjective, so it is not usually modified by words like very or extremely, since it already means extremely happy.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
devastatedheartbroken
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