happy

[hap·py]

Happy is a feeling of joy, pleasure, or good fortune exactly how you'd feel if you learned that you won the lottery or got accepted into your number one choice of colleges.

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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.

Adjective S.
satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment; "felt content with her lot"; "quite happy to let things go on as they are"

Adjective
exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

Adjective S.
well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words"; "a felicitous comment"

Adjective S.
marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome"

Adjective
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"

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Adjective S.
experiencing pleasure or joy; "happy you are here"; "pleased with the good news"


superl.
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.

superl.
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.

superl.
Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.


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.
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.
The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more.
3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder.
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.

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.

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Usage Examples

A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

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Other Usage Examples

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

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