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[hap-ee] 
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–adjective, -pi⋅er, -pi⋅est.
| 1. | delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person. |
| 2. | characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy: a happy mood; a happy frame of mind. |
| 3. | favored by fortune; fortunate or lucky: a happy, fruitful land. |
| 4. | apt or felicitous, as actions, utterances, or ideas. |
| 5. | obsessed by or quick to use the item indicated (usually used in combination): a trigger-happy gangster. Everybody is gadget-happy these days. |
Synonyms:
1. joyous, joyful, blithe, cheerful, merry, contented, gay, blissful, satisfied. 3. favorable, propitious; successful, prosperous. See fortunate. 4. appropriate, fitting, opportune, pertinent.
1. joyous, joyful, blithe, cheerful, merry, contented, gay, blissful, satisfied. 3. favorable, propitious; successful, prosperous. See fortunate. 4. appropriate, fitting, opportune, pertinent.
Antonyms:
1. sad.
1. sad.
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| hap·py (hāp'ē) adj. hap·pi·er, hap·pi·est
[Middle English, from hap, luck; see hap.] hap'pi·ly adv., hap'pi·ness n. Synonyms: These adjectives mean attended by luck or good fortune: a happy outcome; a fortunate omen; a lucky guess; a providential recovery. See Also Synonyms at glad1. |
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Happy
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Happy
Spanish:
feliz, alegre, dichoso,
German:
glücklich,
Japanese:
幸福な
happy
1340, "lucky," from hap "chance, fortune" (see haphazard), sense of "very glad" first recorded c.1390. Ousted O.E. eadig (from ead "wealth, riches") and gesælig, which has become silly. O.E. bliðe "happy" survives as blithe. From Gk. to Ir., a great majority of the European words for "happy" at first meant "lucky." An exception is Welsh, where the word used first meant "wise." Used in World War II and after as a suffix (e.g. bomb-happy, flak-happy) expressing "dazed or frazzled from stress." Happiness is first recorded 1530. Happy hour "early evening period of discount drinks and free hors-d'oeuvres at a bar" is first recorded 1961. Happy-go-lucky is from 1672. Happy as a clam (1636) was originally happy as a clam in the mud at high tide, when it can't be dug up and eaten.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Happy tool
A dyslexic acronym for "A Yacc-like Haskell Parser generator".
An LALR1 grammar parser generator for Haskell. Happy is written in Haskell, uses a parser generated by itself, and can be compiled using ghc, hbc or gofer. Happy uses an implementation of monadic IO built on top of stream IO, but this should change when the Haskell 1.3 standard has been implemented.
Version: 0.9 (1996-02-28).
Happy is covered by the General Public License.
(http://dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/happy.html).
(ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/happy/).
E-mail:
(1996-03-21)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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happy
In addition to the idioms beginning with happy, also see many happy returns; trigger happy.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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