Joy·ful a. Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. “Joyful tidings.”
     My soul shall be joyful in my God.   --Is. lxi. 10.
     Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.   --Pope.
  -- Joy*ful*ly, adv. -- Joy*ful*ness, n.
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  joyfully
       adv : in a joyous and gleeful manner; "the old man had greeted her
             gleefully" [syn: gleefully, joyously] [ant: joylessly]