felicific

as in joyous

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Adjective
  • At Palms Middle School, a public campus on the Westside of Los Angeles, the Trump administration's aggressive immigration crackdown in nation's second-largest city loomed large over an otherwise joyous middle school commencement ceremony on June 10.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 12 June 2025
  • The joyous event raised $1.1 million to support exhibitions, educational programs, and the preservation of the permanent collection of the oldest museum in the United States dedicated to Latino art and culture.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • Hard not to kick back, relax, and drink in these blissful surroundings.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 11 June 2025
  • Sly and the Family Stone released 10 studio albums between 1967 and 1982, with many songs injected with passionate social consciousness and others existing as blissful foot-stompers.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • Score savings on summer clothes and comfortable sneakers that are currently $17 with a flash discount.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 4 June 2025
  • Final Thoughts There is no one-size-fits-all amount that can guarantee a comfortable retirement.
    True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • What if starlets like Spears were not happy collaborators in a patriarchal order but scapegoats who had been exploited for profit, pushed to the brink by an insatiable audience, and forced to bear the misogynistic projections of an entire country?
    Dayna Tortorici, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • When a match goes really well — i.e. when the couple gets engaged, the ballyhooed happy ending of all romances, naturally — a bar cart is rolled out and all the young matchmakers gather around each other and cheer for their good fortune, and for the seeming success of love itself.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Here’s a cheerful fringed umbrella that looks a lot more expensive than its $72 price tag.
    Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 6 June 2025
  • Sparkling with Champagne-like bubbles, a bready, light body and a clean, faintly bitter finish, this cheerful beer is ideal for a sunny summer afternoon.
    Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Your employer will be glad to concede, especially since finding available AI talent is hard to come by. 2.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • Investors appeared glad that Musk would be pivoting away from his involvement in politics to refocus on his companies, pushing up shares of the electric vehicle company nearly 7% Tuesday.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • After years of a legal battle where both sides won key judgments, officials chalked up the apparently amiable end to new personalities at the top of each agency.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2025
  • The performances were too amiable and not particularly satirical (much like the real-life Harris’s own appearance on the show).
    Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • This wasn’t a neighborhood that seemed hospitable to strangers.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
  • The citizens are famously hospitable and love to meet visitors.
    Terry Elward, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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“Felicific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/felicific. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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