Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overjoy
Participle: overjoyed
Gerund: overjoying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overjoy |
| you | overjoy |
| he;she;it | overjoys |
| we | overjoy |
| you | overjoy |
| they | overjoy |
Perfect
| I | have overjoyed |
| you | have overjoyed |
| he;she;it | has overjoyed |
| we | have overjoyed |
| you | have overjoyed |
| they | have overjoyed |
Past
| I | overjoyed |
| you | overjoyed |
| he;she;it | overjoyed |
| we | overjoyed |
| you | overjoyed |
| they | overjoyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had overjoyed |
| you | had overjoyed |
| he;she;it | had overjoyed |
| we | had overjoyed |
| you | had overjoyed |
| they | had overjoyed |
Future
| I | will overjoy |
| you | will overjoy |
| he;she;it | will overjoy |
| we | will overjoy |
| you | will overjoy |
| they | will overjoy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overjoyed |
| you | will have overjoyed |
| he;she;it | will have overjoyed |
| we | will have overjoyed |
| you | will have overjoyed |
| they | will have overjoyed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overjoy |
| you | overjoy |
| he;she;it | overjoy |
| we | overjoy |
| you | overjoy |
| they | overjoy |
Perfect
| I | have overjoyed |
| you | have overjoyed |
| he;she;it | have overjoyed |
| we | have overjoyed |
| you | have overjoyed |
| they | have overjoyed |
Imperfect
| I | overjoyed |
| you | overjoyed |
| he;she;it | overjoyed |
| we | overjoyed |
| you | overjoyed |
| they | overjoyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had overjoyed |
| you | had overjoyed |
| he;she;it | had overjoyed |
| we | had overjoyed |
| you | had overjoyed |
| they | had overjoyed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overjoy |
| you | would overjoy |
| he;she;it | would overjoy |
| we | would overjoy |
| you | would overjoy |
| they | would overjoy |
Perfect
| I | would have overjoyed |
| you | would have overjoyed |
| he;she;it | would have overjoyed |
| we | would have overjoyed |
| you | would have overjoyed |
| they | would have overjoyed |
Imperative
| you | overjoy |
| we | Let's overjoy |
| you | overjoy |
Verbs conjugated like 'overjoy'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overjoy'
overbody,
overbow,
overbuy,
overcloy,
overdo,
overdot,
overdry,
overenjoy,
overfly,
overgo,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1382, "to rejoice over," from over + joy (q.v.); translating L. supergaudere (in Psalms xxxiv, etc.). Transitive sense of "to fill with gladness" is first recorded 1571 (now usually in pp.).
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *úp
4. Proto-Indo-European *-er
5. Proto-Indo-European *upér
6. Proto-Germanic *uber
7. Old English ofer-
8. Middle English over-
9. English over-
10. English joy
11. English overjoy
12. From over- + joy.
Sample Sentences
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The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me.
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This salutation ouerioyes my heart. [1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):]
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In overjoying me, you are grown sad; [c. 1612–1615?, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, revised by Philip Massinger, “Loves Cure or, The Martial Maid”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 143:]
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If my Letter pleas'd you, your's overjoy'd me; and I expect impatiently your kind Viſit: […] [1711 July 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Alexander Pope, “Letters to Henry Cromwell, Esq. Letter V.”, in Mr Pope’s Literary Correspondence, volume II, London: […] E[dmund] Curll, […], published 1735, →OCLC, page 10:]
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Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother’s; / Hers couldst thou wholly be, / My light in thee would outglow all in others; / She would relive to me. / But niggard Nature’s trick of birth / Bars, lest she overjoy, / Renewal of the loved on earth / Save with alloy. [1898, Thomas Hardy, “To an Orphan Child”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 163:]
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1598, John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal ,
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Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:
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it is hard not to ouer-ioy in a sudden prosperitie, and, to vse happinesse is no lesse difficult, then to forbeare it [1618, Joseph Hall, Contemplations upon the Principall Passages of the Holy Story, volume 4, London: Henry Fetherstone, page 42:]
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1685, Thomas Manton, “A Description of the True Circumcision” in Several Discourses Tending to Promote Peace and Holiness among Christians, London: Jonathan Robinson, p. 113,
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That he doth not over-joy in worldly Comforts, nor over-grieve for worldly Losses.