rejoicing

Other forms of rejoicing

plural

rejoicings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rejoicing

What does rejoicing mean?

rejoicing means "a feeling of great happiness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rejoicing?

rejoicing has 3 syllables: re-joi-cing. The stress falls on "joi". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/.

What is another word for rejoicing?

Close synonyms include exultation, jubilation, exultant, exulting, jubilant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rejoicing a common word?

rejoicing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.