happy

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He might think about the other things, I'm sure that he enjoys feeling success and I know he loves his iPhone, so money does cross his mind, but what really gives him a happy is the connection he shares with the people in his life.

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  1. adjective Characterized by good luck; fortunate.
  2. adjective Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy.
  3. adjective Being especially well-adapted; felicitous: a happy turn of phrase.

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  • And the chief thing that keeps her happy is her writing. —  Vanishing Point - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 24: 1953
  • And there is an altitude of aerial tragedy in the words of Grace, who has refused the man she loves, to Julia, who is marrying the man she doesn't, "This is what they call a happy ending—these men." —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of George Bernard Shaw, by Gilbert K. Chesterton.
  • Yet they were happy--very happy, and they felt that, come what might, nothing on earth could part them now When Kennedy had grown more calm, Violet called for Cyril, and bade him break the fact of Edward's presence to her mother and Julian. —  Julian Home
  • If she is happy, she will be humble and meek-- happy, that is, in the way I mean I'll do aught as 'll make our Filomena meek," replied Dan, with a shake of his grizzled head: "but how that's going to be shaped beats me, I can tell you. —  Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago
  • And then she straightened herself, and went out of the room Of course she was happy--happy, and with a heart at rest as it had not been for months and months. —  Good Old Anna
 

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pleasant ·  beautiful ·  quiet ·  unhappy

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happy:   happier ·  happiest
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from hap, luck; see hap.

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  1. from Middle English happy; from hap, n., + -y.
  2. from happy, adjective
 

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