happy
IPA: hˈæpi
noun
- (informal, rare) A happy event, thing, person, etc.
- A male given name.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
verb
- (intransitive, informal) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
- (transitive, informal) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
adjective
- Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
- Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
- Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
- (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
- (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
- (rare, of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.
- Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.
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Examples of "happy" in Sentences
- With best wishes for you for a happy, _happy_ New Year,
- In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy .
- "Well, parson," replied the only half-converted youth, "I am not damn happy, just _happy, _ that's all."
- I love to make people happy, and I think that giving away a box of yummy things will make someone *happy*.
- I. _Barzillai was evidently by nature a warm-hearted, sunshiny old man, himself happy and making others happy_.
- THANKSS LOTSSSSS = D happy happy~ but somehow, somewhere, there's still something missing within me .... we need a miracle!
- She surveyed us both with a look of composure and satisfaction, expressive of her conviction that we should be happy, happy with one another.
- MY DEAREST VICTORIA, -- I have to thank you for two extremely kind and dear letters, which made me very happy, and your kind heart would be pleased to know _how happy_.
- "I shall be happy -- no, _happy_ is not a good word for me -- I shall be glad to see you in my studio when I have moved in, and perhaps you may see some things to please you."
- He took my hand, -- Yes, Madam, to make _me_ happy, -- for ever happy, -- to make _Sir James_ and _Lady Powis happy_, you have only to determine not to quit your native country.
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