Meaning

2 senses
  1. Unable to establish visual or radio contact with a target aircraft.

  2. (idiomatic)A negative outcome; no success; a failure.

    I've been waiting 20 minutes for a bus, and still no joy.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Without the risk of pain, there can be no happiness and joy.

  2. My heart knows no more joy.

  3. In my face there's no more joy.

  4. There is no joy greater than saving a human life.

  5. No joy is temporary, because the impression it leaves is permanent.

    deKein Genuß ist vorübergehend, denn der Eindruck, den er zurückläßt, ist bleibend. — al_ex_an_der

Forms

plural: no joys
Singularno joy
Pluralno joys

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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