How to spell joyful

hear itjoy·ful/'dʒɔɪfəl/adjectivePrefixes and work

What it means: Feeling or showing great happiness.

In a sentence: The puppy looked joyful when it played with its new ball.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as joyfull or joyfull.

Same family: joyfully, joyfulness, joyous, enjoy, enjoyment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Joyful is formed from the noun "joy" plus the old suffix "-ful," which literally means "full of." The root "joy" comes from Old French "joie," originally from Latin "gaudium," meaning delight or gladness.

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