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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Characterized by good luck; fortunate.
  2. adj. Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy.
  3. adj. Being especially well-adapted; felicitous: a happy turn of phrase.
  4. adj. Cheerful; willing: happy to help.
  5. adj. Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination: trigger-happy.
  6. adj. Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination: money-happy; clothes-happy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Manifesting or marked by good hap or fortune; lucky; fortuitously fortunate, favorable, or successful: as, a happy contingency or omen; a happy thought or discovery.
  2. Conscious that one's general condition of feeling is a highly satisfactory one; conscious that one feels, in general, decidedly more pleasure than pain; having a general feeling of pleasure; satisfied; pleased.
  3. Being in a favorable condition or in advantageous circumstances; fortunate; secure of good; blessed.
  4. Affording pleasure or enjoyment; bringing or attended with good fortune, luck, or pleasure; agreeable: as, happy thoughts; a happy condition; happier times.
  5. Indicative or expressive of happiness; joyful: as, the happy shouts of children; happy smiles or tears.
  6. Apt; fitting the purpose, occasion, or circumstances; opportune; felicitous: as, a happy expedient; a happy retort.
  7. Dexterous; ready; able.
  8. Synonyms Happy, Felicitous, Fortunate, Lucky. Felicitous is now rarely used except in the sense of apt and pleasing, a sense in which happy also is used: as, a felicitous or happy combination, answer, speech. Fortunate and lucky, by their derivations, are a higher and a lower term for the prosperous turns of chance or the lot in life. Happy, though essentially the same by derivation, has a broader application; it is never altogether separated from the idea of enjoyment. See happiness.
  9. To make happy.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Experiencing the effect of favourable 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.
  2. adj. Favored by luck or fortune; lucky.
  3. adj. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
  4. adj. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire
  2. adj. 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.
  3. adj. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
  2. adj. eagerly disposed to act or to be of service
  3. adj. marked by good fortune
  4. adj. well expressed and to the point

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English hap ("chance") + -y (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from hap, luck; see hap. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (11)

Words with the same meaning

  1. lucky
  2. fortunate
  1. successful
  2. prosperous
  1. contented
  2. joyous
  1. dexterous
  2. ready
  1. apt
  2. felicitous
  1. glad

equivalents (11)

Other words for ‘happy’

  1. blessed
  2. laughing
  1. prosperous
  2. bright
  1. halcyon
  2. blissful
  1. golden
  2. riant
  1. willing
  2. fortunate
  1. felicitous

antonyms (2)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. unhappy
  1. sad

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. pleasant
  2. beautiful
  3. quiet
  4. unhappy
  5. lost
  1. here
  2. saved
  3. made
  4. written
  5. ready
  1. find
  2. still
  3. red
  4. received
  5. green
  1. clear
  2. furere
  3. taken
  4. confin
  5. sad
  1. strong
  2. improv
  3. theirs
  4. either
  5. universal

rhymes (4)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. chappie
  1. scrappy
  1. snappy
  1. unhappy

reverse dictionary (146)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. happy
  2. happily
  3. lucky
  4. fortunate
  5. providential
  6. nostalgia
  7. felicitous
  8. felicity
  9. luck
  10. felicify
  11. felicitate
  12. to enjoy one's self
  13. felicific
  14. dream
  15. Elysium
  16. imparadise
  17. light
  18. make
  19. happy hunting grounds
  20. set
  21. comedy
  22. content
  23. halcyon
  24. happiness
  25. kindly
  26. cheerful
  27. eudemonize
  28. eugenism
  29. jollify
  1. quiverful
  2. unbless
  3. unblithe
  4. wealful
  5. blissful
  6. glad
  7. seely
  8. sonsy
  9. gaily
  10. infelicitous
  11. MIT-no
  12. beatify
  13. beatific
  14. Elysian
  15. fortunize
  16. hail
  17. happify
  18. heaven
  19. hilariously
  20. macarize
  21. eupeptic
  22. Munro
  23. ending
  24. red-letter
  25. fain
  26. machinery
  27. upbeat
  28. well-being
  29. unhappy
  1. smiley
  2. slaphappy
  3. happy hunting ground
  4. bless
  5. blessed
  6. congratulate
  7. to congratulate one's self
  8. fortune
  9. happen
  10. lighthearted
  11. dumka
  12. comic opera
  13. roof
  14. heart
  15. where
  16. seel
  17. overjoy
  18. red-letter day
  19. salivate
  20. sandboy
  21. accident
  22. alight
  23. Smith
  24. anything
  25. bright
  26. but
  27. cheer
  28. congenital
  29. face
  1. very
  2. high
  3. whole
  4. mental
  5. lilt
  6. less
  7. Damocles
  8. drool
  9. eudaemonia
  10. eudaimonia
  11. fortuitous
  12. gladden
  13. in high spirits
  14. light-hearted
  15. lightsome
  16. opera bouffe
  17. opera comique
  18. satisfy
  19. welfare
  20. beatification
  21. blithe
  22. blithesome
  23. bouffe
  24. celebration
  25. gratify
  26. jolly
  27. joy
  28. jubilation
  29. merry
  1. ore
  2. overhappy
  3. silly
  4. successful
  5. universalism
  6. unsely
  7. well
  8. white
  9. apropos
  10. auspicious
  11. before
  12. blessing
  13. conceit
  14. Edy
  15. farewell
  16. gar
  17. golden
  18. highbinder
  19. hit
  20. issue
  21. joyful
  22. meeting
  23. readiness
  24. satire
  25. Saturnian
  26. slapdash
  27. succeed
  28. success
  29. serendipity
  1. termination

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  1. love
  1. positive
  1. smiley
  1. cheery
  1. cheerful
  1. upbeat
  1. emotion
  1. mood

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  1. :)
  1. :-)
  1. derby

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  • jmjarmstrong JM would like a chance to prove money can't make him happy. Jul 14, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
    -Oscar Wilde

    Jul 26, 2009

  • Prolagus Easter! Apr 12, 2009

  • bilby Compared to the one-liners, comebacks and so on this is one of the few wistful, even serious quotes I've read of GM. An interesting thought too! Dec 24, 2007

  • sonofgroucho Dad was so wise, wasn't he? Dec 24, 2007

  • bilby "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
    - Groucho Marx. Dec 23, 2007

  • oroboros "OH--

    We be happy,

    We be glad,

    We'd feel good--

    BUT

    We feel bad."


    --Jan Cox Oct 14, 2007

  • erinoftheyear what I want to be... Aug 16, 2007

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