happy
Use Happy in a sentence
i adjective, hap·pi·er, hap·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.
Related forms
o·ver·hap·py, adjective
qua·si-hap·py, adjective
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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Happy
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
happy (ˈhæpɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , -pier, -piest | |
| 1. | feeling, showing, or expressing joy; pleased |
| 2. | willing: I'd be happy to show you around |
| 3. | causing joy or gladness |
| 4. | fortunate; lucky: the happy position of not having to work |
| 5. | aptly expressed; appropriate: a happy turn of phrase |
| 6. | informal (postpositive) slightly intoxicated |
| —interj | |
| 7. | (in combination): happy birthday; happy Christmas |
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| 'happily | |
| —adv | |
| 'happiness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
happy
mid-14c., "lucky," from hap "chance, fortune" (see haphazard), sense of "very glad" first recorded late 14c. Ousted O.E. eadig (from ead "wealth, riches") and gesælig, which has become silly. O.E. bliðe "happy" survives as
blithe. From Greek to Irish, 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." 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 1670s. Happy as a clam (1630s) was originally happy as a clam in the mud at high tide, when it can't be dug up and eaten.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
happy definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary
Happy definition
toolA 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)
American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
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.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
The film smuggled its politics in under the guise of two happy-go-lucky gals taking a road trip together.
And if you're lucky, you find something that makes you happy.
What is not reflected in the happy photos of the new puppy are the mistakes that might have come before him.
She never minded the vast hotel or dinner bills as long as everyone was happy.
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