Rejoiced

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪst/

Definitions

1. To experience a profound sense of joy or elation in reaction to favorable events or circumstances
2. To express one's feelings of celebratory happiness or contentment as a response to positive experiences or outcomes
3. To feel a strong emotion of happiness or delight due to a good event ; to openly display excitement or pleasure about a positive outcome

Etymology: This is an inflected form, so the story belongs to its base verb, "rejoice." That verb came into Middle English as "rejoicen" or "rejoisen," borrowed from Old French "resjoir," a compound meaning to make joyful again. The Old French verb is the ancestor of modern French "réjouir," and its cousins in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian ("regocijar," "regozijar," "gioire") carry the same sense of renewed gladness. English also has a close relative, "rejoy," which entered the language by a separate route and is a doublet of "rejoice." Both descend from the same Old French source, so they are sisters that took different paths into the language. "Rejoiced" simply adds the regular past-tense ending to "rejoice," giving the form that has been used for the verb's past actions.

Synonyms: celebrated, delighted, exulted, gleeful, jubilated

Antonyms: lamented, mourned, sorrowed, grieved