Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

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.