oblectation, delectation, delection†; relish, zest; gusto &c (physical
pleasure) 377; satisfaction &c (content) 831; complacency.
well-being; good &c 618; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion &c 215;
sans souci [Fr.], without worry, mind at ease.
joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness &c
836.
treat, refreshment; amusement &c 840; luxury &c 377.
mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.] [Juvenal], a sound mind in a
sound body.
happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification;
enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum
[Lat.]; paradise, elysium &c (heaven) 981; third heaven†, seventh
heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness &c; hedonics†, hedonism.
honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time;
Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna [Lat.], Arcadia†, Shangri-La, happy
valley, Agapemone†.
V. be pleased &c 829; feel pleasure, experience pleasure &c n.; joy;
enjoy oneself, hug oneself; be in clover &c 377, be in elysium &c 981;
tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures.
feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine.
be pleased with &c 829; receive pleasure, derive pleasure &c n..
from; take pleasure &c n.. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in,
luxuriate in; gloat over &c (physical pleasure) 377; enjoy, relish,
like; love &c 897; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter
into the spirit of.
take in good part.
treat oneself to, solace oneself with.
Adj. pleased &c 829; not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch.
happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at
high water [U.S.], happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day
is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus [Lat.]; enjoying &c v.;
joyful &c (in spirits) 836; hedonic†.
in a blissful state, in paradise &c 981, in raptures, in
ecstasies, in a transport of delight.
comfortable &c (physical pleasure) 377; at ease; content &c 831;
sans souci [Fr.].
overjoyed, entranced, enchanted; enraptures; enravished†;
transported; fascinated, captivated.
with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes.
pleasing &c 829; ecstatic, beatic†; painless, unalloyed, without
alloy, cloudless.
Adv. happily &c adj.; with pleasure &c (willingfully) 602 [Obs.]; with
glee &c n..
Phr. one's heart leaping with joy.
a wilderness of sweets [Paradise Lost]; I wish you all the joy
that you can wish [M.
of Venice]; jour de ma vie; joy ruled the day and love the night
[Dryden]; joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt [Young]; oh
happiness, our being's end and aim! [Pope]; there is a pleasure that is
born of pain [O Meridith]; throned on highest bliss [Paradise Lost];
vedi Napoli e poi muori [It]; zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke
nicht weit [G.], the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.