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Definition of Happy

1. Adjective. Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure. "A happy marriage"

2. Adjective. Marked by good fortune. "A happy outcome"

3. Adjective. Eagerly disposed to act or to be of service. "Glad to help"

4. Adjective. Well expressed and to the point. "A few well-chosen words"

Definition of Happy

1. a. 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.

Definition of Happy

1. 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. ¹

2. Adjective. Favored by luck or fortune; lucky. ¹

3. Adjective. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous. ¹

4. Adjective. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Happy

1. marked by joy [adj -PIER, -PIEST] : HAPPILY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Happy

happies happiest happified happifies happify happifying happily happily ever after happiness happinesses

happing happis happlicable happroach happroachin' happy (current term) happy-clappies happy-clappy happy-go-lucky happy as Larry

happy as a clam happy as a clam at high water happy as a lark happy birthday happy birthdayed happy birthdaying happy birthdays happy bunny happy camper

Literary usage of Happy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1886)
"It is not without reason, then, that we do not call an ox, or a horse, or any brute happy; for none of them is able to share in this kind of activity. ..."

2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1874)
"... fake thou wert but lately dead : There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee, ... there art thou happy too. ..."

3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"happy Thought.—Put down a Napoleon, and see what change comes out of it. ... happy Thought—fa explain it to him thus, that these are Belgians, VOL. ..."

4. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; ... It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish not to ..."

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