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happy

/ˈhæpiː/

noun

Meaning

  • A happy event, thing, person, etc.

noun

Meaning

  • Preceded by the: happy people as a group.

verb

Meaning

  • Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.

  • Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Synonyms

happify

adjective

Meaning

  • 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.

    "Music makes me feel happy."

  • 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).

    "Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?"

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

    "a happy coincidence"

  • (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.

    "slaphappy, trigger-happy"

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

Synonyms

cheerful,
content,
delighted,
elated,
exultant,
glad,
joyful,
jubilant,
merry,
orgasmic,
fortunate,
lucky,
propitious