About The Word Happy
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What's The Definition Of Happy?
[adj] satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment; "felt content with her lot"; "quite happy to let things go on as they are"
[adj] exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation [adj] well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words"; "a felicitous comment" [adj] marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome" [adj] enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage" [adj] experiencing pleasure or joy; "happy you are here"; "pleased with the good news" Synonyms | Synonyms for Happy: blessed | blissful | bright | content(p) | contented | elysian | euphoriant | euphoric | expansive | felicitous | fortunate | golden | halcyon | joyful | joyous | laughing(a) | paradisaic | paradisaical | paradisal | paradisiac | paradisiacal | paradisial | pleased | prosperous | riant | well-chosen Related Terms | Find terms related to Happy: a propos | accepting | accidental | ad rem | adapted | addled | advantageous | advisable | applicable | apposite | appropriate | apropos | apt | at ease | auspicious | beaming | beatific | beatified | becoming | beery | befitting | bemused | beneficial | benign | benignant | besotted | blessed | blind drunk | blissful | blithe | blithesome | bright | bright and sunny | capering | casual | cheerful | cheery | chirping | civil | cock-a-hoop | cogent | comely | comfortable | composed | congruous | content | contented | convenient | convincing | correct | crapulent | crapulous | dancing | decent | decorous | delighted | desirable | dizzy | dovetailing | drenched | drunk | drunken | easy | easygoing | ecstatic | effective | effectual | efficacious | efficient | elated | eupeptic | euphoric | exalted | exhilarated | expedient | exuberant | exultant | fair | far-gone | favorable | favoring | feasible | felicitous | fit | fitted | fitten | fitting | flushed | flushed with joy | flustered | fortuitous | fortunate | fou | fructuous | full | full of promise | gay | geared | genial | genteel | giddy | glad | gladsome | gleeful | glorious | glowing | golden | good | gratified | high | hopeful | in good spirits | in high spirits | in liquor | in seventh heaven | incidental | inebriate | inebriated | inebrious | inspired | intoxicated | irrepressible | jolly | joyful | joyous | jubilant | just | just right | laughing | leaping | lighthearted | light-hearted | likely | lucky | maudlin | meet | mellow | merry | meshing | muddled | nappy | nice | of good cheer | of good comfort | of good omen | of happy portent | of promise | on cloud nine | on the button | opportune | optimistic | overjoyed | pat | pleasant | pleased | pleased as Punch | politic | profitable | promising | proper | propitious | prosperous | providential | purring | qualified | radiant | recommendable | reconciled | reeling | relevant | resigned | riant | right | ripe | rosy | sanguine | sanguineous | sans souci | satisfied | seasonable | seemly | shikker | singing | smiling | smirking | sodden | sortable | sotted | sparkling | starry-eyed | suitable | suited | suiting | sunny | tailored | telling | thrice happy | thrilled | tickled pink | tiddly | timely | tipsy | to be desired | to the point | to the purpose | uncomplaining | under the influence | unrepining | urbane | useful | well | well-chosen | well-expressed | well-put | well-timed | winsome | wise | without care | worthwhile See Also | cheerful | elated | glad | happy Happy In Webster's Dictionary \Hap"py\, a. [Compar. {Happier}; superl. {Happiest}.]
[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.
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