| 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. |