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happy
[ hap-ee ]
adjective
- delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing:
I'm so happy to see you!
Synonyms: satisfied, blissful, contented, merry, cheerful, blithe, joyful, joyous
Antonyms: sad
- characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy:
a happy mood;
a happy frame of mind.
- willing to be helpful, as with assistance, a contribution, or participation:
We’ll be happy to bring a couple of salads to the party.
- favored by fortune; fortunate or lucky:
Our home country is a happy, fruitful land.
Synonyms: prosperous, successful, propitious, favorable
- (used as part of an expression of good wishes on a special occasion):
Happy Valentine’s Day to my husband.
Happy Birthday, Grandpa!
- apt or felicitous, as actions, utterances, or ideas:
Their collaboration was a happy accident.
Synonyms: pertinent, opportune, fitting, appropriate
- obsessed by or quick to use the item indicated (usually used in combination):
He was a trigger-happy gangster.
Everybody is gadget-happy these days.
happy
1/ ˈhæpɪ /
adjective
- feeling, showing, or expressing joy; pleased
- willing
I'd be happy to show you around
- causing joy or gladness
- fortunate; lucky
the happy position of not having to work
- aptly expressed; appropriate
a happy turn of phrase
- informal.postpositive slightly intoxicated
interjection
- ( in combination )
happy birthday
happy Christmas
-happy
2combining form
- denoting excessive enthusiasm for or devotion to
gun-happy
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Derived Forms
- ˈhappiness, noun
- ˈhappily, adverb
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Other Words From
- o·ver·hap·py adjective
- qua·si-hap·py adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of happy1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of happy1
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Idioms and Phrases
- happy as a clam. happy as a clam.
More idioms and phrases containing happy
- many happy returns
- trigger happy
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Example Sentences
So, as far as Mexican officials like Peña Nieto are concerned, the goal is to keep their countrymen here — and keep them happy.
How do you celebrate when happy occasions are colored by loss and absence?
He seemed by all appearances perfectly happy to let the Republicans control the state senate.
The church was not happy with his views, and there was talk of excommunication.
“We wish each and every one of you a happy and safe new year,” Giorgio said at the very end.
And that was that if he and his wife were to ever live together again and be happy, the family were to be kept out of it.
Cousin George's position is such a happy one, that conversation is to him a thing superfluous.
Liszt gazed at "his Hans," as he calls him, with the fondest pride, and seemed perfectly happy over his arrival.
M'Bongo and his whole court are now clothed, I am happy to say, at least to a certain extent.
He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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