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Overjoyed

Mood
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Describing an intense state of elation or extreme happiness, often conveyed through exuberant imagery or elevated diction.

Detailed Definition
Overjoyed mood in poetry bursts with unrestrained happiness through luminous imagery, rapid rhythm, and expansive diction; it appears in reunion poems, birth lyrics, or spiritual epiphanies—like Whitman or Neruda—where the speaker’s joy overflows all bounds, transforming personal ecstasy into a universal celebration of connection, grace, or life’s unexpected gifts.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats is overjoyed by imaginative escape; Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” bursts with overjoyed celebration; In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Wordsworth’s heart dances with overjoyed delight; Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” conveys overjoyed intoxication; In “Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou’s triumphant tone expresses overjoyed resilience; Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” ends with overjoyed urgency about living.
Additional Notes
Overjoyed mood denotes extreme, overflowing happiness; expressed through hyperbolic imagery, rapid rhythm, and radiant diction—e.g., reunion or miracle poems; overlaps with ecstatic, jubilant, and elated moods; more emphatic and sudden than serene or content joy.
Also Known As
Ecstatic Elated Jubilant Thrilled Over the moon Euphoric Exultant Exulted Rapturous
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