Difference between Happy and Joyous

HAPPY vs JOYOUS: ADJECTIVE

Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination.
Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination.
Characterized by good luck. : fortunate.
Cheerful; willing.
Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy. : glad.
Marked by good fortune
Exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation
Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune
Well expressed and to the point
Experiencing pleasure or joy
Being especially well-adapted; felicitous.
Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire
Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
A collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant.
Trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going.
Favored by luck or fortune; lucky.
Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
Eagerly disposed to act or to be of service
Satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment

Full of or characterized by joy
Full of or suggesting exultant happiness
Feeling, showing, or causing joy; joyful. : glad.
Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.
Full of joy; happy.

Being in a favorable condition or in advantageous circumstances; fortunate; secure of good; blessed.
Affording pleasure or enjoyment; bringing or attended with good fortune, luck, or pleasure; agreeable: as, happy thoughts; a happy condition; happier times.
Indicative or expressive of happiness; joyful: as, the happy shouts of children; happy smiles or tears.
Apt; fitting the purpose, occasion, or circumstances; opportune; felicitous: as, a happy expedient; a happy retort.
Dexterous; ready; able.
Synonyms Happy, Felicitous, Fortunate, Lucky. Felicitous is now rarely used except in the sense of apt and pleasing, a sense in which happy also is used: as, a felicitous or happy combination, answer, speech. Fortunate and lucky, by their derivations, are a higher and a lower term for the prosperous turns of chance or the lot in life. Happy, though essentially the same by derivation, has a broader application; it is never altogether separated from the idea of enjoyment. See happiness.
Manifesting or marked by good hap or fortune; lucky; fortuitously fortunate, favorable, or successful: as, a happy contingency or omen; a happy thought or discovery.
To make happy.
Conscious that one's general condition of feeling is a highly satisfactory one; conscious that one feels, in general, decidedly more pleasure than pain; having a general feeling of pleasure; satisfied; pleased.

Content, Felicitous, Golden, Bright, Prosperous, Blissful, Euphoric, Laughing, Joyous, Joyful, Blessed, Contented, Fortunate, Pleased, Glad

Enraptured, Merry, Elated, Rhapsodic, Festal, Happy, Jolly, Jovial, Mirthful, Ecstatic, Gleeful, Festive, Rapturous, Jubilant, Joyful

Content, Felicitous, Golden, Bright, Prosperous, Blissful, Euphoric, Laughing, Joyous, Joyful, Blessed, Contented, Fortunate, Pleased, Glad

Enraptured, Merry, Elated, Rhapsodic, Festal, Happy, Jolly, Jovial, Mirthful, Ecstatic, Gleeful, Festive, Rapturous, Jubilant, Joyful

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ANT: Auspicious, hopeful, cheering, assuring, animating, encouraging, joyous.
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