happy

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Meaning

1. 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.
2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
3. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
4. Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
5. Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
6. Favoring or inclined to use.
7. Dexterous, ready, skilful.
8. Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.

glad

be happy

make happy

be glad

well-chosen

I am happy

doing well

be cheerful

feel pleased

debonair

seely

free from disease

make fun

free from grief

joful

greatly delighted

making glad

willing and able

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well-disposed

white

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yell out

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become warm

be free

to be

be pleasing to

fond of

good mood

in good spirits

rejoice in

lucky omen

pleasant feelings

Frequency

Hyphenated as

hap‧py

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhæpi/

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”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.

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