overjoyed

adj

1. Very happy.

   “Fans were overjoyed at / by the sight of their team handing the visitors such a decisive defeat.”

   “After a long, arduous trek, we were overjoyed to catch sight of our destination at last.”

   “The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being overjoyed with finding a birds’ nest, shows it his companion, and he steals it.”

   “They were most agreeably surprised to see me, and I quite overjoyed at meeting with them.”

   “Olaf was overjoyed, for the power of evil beings ceases when their name is known.”

2. (obsolete)Overly happy.

   “Which must teach vs not to be ouer-ioyed with any of Gods fauours, and honours, but euen then to thinke of, and to prepare for some following after-claps, and as contentedly to endure the one, as cheerefully receiue the other.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of overjoy