happy
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- IPA /ˈhæpiː/
Noun
happy noun
- A happy event, thing, person, etc.
happy noun
- Preceded by the: happy people as a group.
Verb
happy verb
- Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
- Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
Adjective
happy 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.“Music makes me feel happy.”
- Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
- 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?”
- (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.“a happy coincidence”
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happifycheerfulcontentdelightedelatedexultantgladjoyfuljubilantmerryorgasmicfortunateluckypropitiouspleasedblissfulcontentedeuphoric
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