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happy

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  • IPA /ˈhæpiː/

Noun

happy noun

  1. A happy event, thing, person, etc.

happy noun

  1. Preceded by the: happy people as a group.

Verb

happy verb

  1. Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
  2. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Adjective

happy adjective

  1. 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.“Music makes me feel happy.”
  2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
  3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).“Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?”
  4. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.“a happy coincidence”

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happifycheerfulcontentdelightedelatedexultantgladjoyfuljubilantmerryhappy

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