Joy and Wound

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Joy noun - A feeling or state of well-being and contentment.

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Wound is an antonym for joy.

Nearby Words: joyful, joyous, joyless, joyfully, joyously

Wound noun - An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin).

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Joy is an antonym for wound in injury topic.

Nearby Words: wounded, wounding

particular	particular joy	particular wound
single	single joy	single wound
deep	deep joy	deep wound
obvious	obvious joy	obvious wound
Other adjectives: simple, near, apparent, lethal.

He ambushed him in a dark alley, sprayed him with acid that wound up melting half his goddamn face off, shocked him with an electric joy-buzzer, and finally shot him dead as Lex insulted him for his myopia and lack of foresight in not allowing the Joker to join the Society in the first place.

Source: Cruel and Unusual Death
It wound up a remarkably good Pastiche of Joy Division's gloomier material.

Source: Half-Remembered Homage

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Wound and Joy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/joy/wound

Joy & Wound. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/joy/wound>.

Wound or Joy. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/joy/wound.

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