overjoyed

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to feel great joy or delight; elate: It overjoys me to hear of your good fortune. I was overjoyed at her safe arrival.

adjective

1. delighted; excessively happy

verb

1. (tr) to give great delight to

v.late 14c., “to rejoice over,” from over- + joy (q.v.); translating Latin supergaudere (in Psalms xxxiv, etc.). Transitive sense of “to fill with gladness” is first recorded 1570s (now usually in past participle overjoyed).