Meaning
Opposite of
blue, depressed, down, miserable, moody, morose, sad, unhappy, blissed out, blissful, cock-a-hoop, content, delighted, ecstatic, elated, excited, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, jovial, joyful, on cloud nine, overjoyed, over the moon, pacific, perky, placated, pleased, satisfied, thrilled, tickled pink, triumphant, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, disenchanted, dissatisfied, inappropriate, inapt, unfelicitous
Synonyms
be happy
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhæpi/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Faroese heppin (“fortunate, lucky, happy”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
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