Antonyms of adj joyless

1 sense of joyless

Sense 1
joyless (vs. joyous) -- (not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings")

joyous (vs. joyless) -- (full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter")
        => ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rapt, rhapsodic -- (feeling great rapture or delight)
        => elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant -- (full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart")
        => gay, festal, festive, merry -- (offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening")
        => gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful -- (full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh")

Similarity of adj joyless

1 sense of joyless

Sense 1
joyless (vs. joyous) -- (not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings")
       => funereal, sepulchral -- (suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones")
       => mirthless -- (lacking mirth)
       => unsmiling -- (not smiling)
          Also See-> depressing#1, cheerless#1, uncheerful#1; sorrowful#1; unhappy#1