joyful

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: And that was only a part of what we both saw, while you made the paths joyful for me!

Modifies a noun

• eastertide: Author of all things, we beseech you, in this joyful Eastertide, defend your people from all the assaults of death.
• tidings: Now there are only six to spread the joyful tidings.
• anticipation: But, like many others, I do look forward to Peter's arrival at Church House in May with joyful anticipation.
• reunion: Much to my surprise the show ended with their joyful reunion.
• celebration: It was a very joyful celebration at Mercy House.
• mystery: For instance, what about the fifth joyful mystery?

Modifying Another Word

• even: Even joyful reunions are reserved for the station forecourt.
• so: I have never been so joyful, free and peaceful as I am now.
• very: My friend is very joyful about the future of the business.
• not: Joy is not about smiling all the time or denying what is not joyful.
• truly: Its aim is to accompany you through this truly joyful season.
• sometimes: A wordless, visual tapestry full of magical images that captures the sometimes joyful, sometimes melancholic mood of present-day Havana.

Infinitive complement

• have: It was joyful to have a small lie in this morning.
• hear: Pippa Little is a fine poet and it was joyful to hear these finely wrought poems read out loud.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: For the first time in my life, I was starting a film and I didn't feel joyful.
• make: May Cu-ilicu rely on you, may he be made joyful by you!
• become: But when they found that instead of being killed they were treated with kindness, they became exceedingly joyful.
• seem: They seem almost joyful to report our own losses, but they almost never tell us how much damage we did to the enemy.

Preposition: in

hope: Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.