Happy definition
Cheerful; willing.
Happy to help.
adjective
Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy.
adjective
Having, showing, or causing a feeling of great pleasure, contentment, joy, etc.; joyous; glad; pleased.
adjective
Characterized by good luck.
adjective
Being especially well-adapted; felicitous.
A happy turn of phrase.
adjective
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Favored by circumstances; lucky; fortunate.
adjective
Exactly appropriate to the occasion; suitable and clever; apt; felicitous.
A happy suggestion.
adjective
Irresponsibly quick to act.
Trigger-happy.
adjective
Intoxicating, sedating, etc.
Happy pills.
adjective
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Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination.
Money-happy; clothes-happy.
adjective
Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination.
Trigger-happy.
adjective
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.
Music makes me feel happy.
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Intoxicated, sedated, etc.
Slap-happy.
adjective
The definition of happy is someone or something that is feeling great pleasure or joy.
An example of happy is someone who wins the lottery.
An example of happy is a baby laughing.
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Other Word Forms
Adjective
Base Form:
happy
Comparative:
happier
Superlative:
happiestOrigin of happy
- Middle English from hap luck hap
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English happy, from hap (“chance”) (from Old Norse; see hap for more) + -y.
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