HAPPY

happy, well-chosen

(adjective) well expressed and to the point; “a happy turn of phrase”; “a few well-chosen words”

felicitous, happy

(adjective) marked by good fortune; “a felicitous life”; “a happy outcome”

happy

(adjective) enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure; “a happy smile”; “spent many happy days on the beach”; “a happy marriage”

glad, happy

(adjective) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service; “glad to help”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

Happy

A male given name.

Etymology

Adjective

happy (comparative happier or more happy, superlative happiest or most happy)

Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.

Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.

Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).

(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.

(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.

(rare, of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.

Usage notes

• (contented, joyous): Said of people, hours, times, thoughts, etc.

• (fortunate, lucky): Said of efforts, expedients, omens, ventures, etc.

Synonyms

• (contented, joyous): cheerful, content, delighted, elated, exultant, glad, joyful, jubilant, merry, orgasmic

• (fortunate, lucky): fortunate, lucky, propitious

• See also happy

Antonyms

• (contented, joyous): blue, depressed, down, miserable, moody, morose, sad, unhappy

• (fortunate, lucky): unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious

• (content, satisfied): disenchanted, dissatisfied

• (appropriate, apt): inappropriate, inapt, unfelicitous

Noun

happy pl (plural only)

preceded by the: happy people as a group.

Noun

happy (plural happies)

(informal, rare) A happy event, thing, person, etc.

Verb

happy (third-person singular simple present happies, present participle happying, simple past and past participle happied)

(intransitive, informal) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.

(transitive, informal) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Synonyms

• (to make happy): happify

Source: Wiktionary

Hap"py, a. [Compar. Happier; superl. Happiest.] Etym: [From Hap chance.]

1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. Boyle.

2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts. Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. Ps. cxliv. 15. The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. Pope.

3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous. One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. Swift. Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant.

– Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carelessness." W. Black.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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