Happy
['hæpɪ]
Definition
(adj.) well expressed and to the point; 'a happy turn of phrase'; 'a few well-chosen words' .
(adj.) enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure; 'a happy smile'; 'spent many happy days on the beach'; 'a happy marriage' .
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Definition
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Experiencing the effect of favorable 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; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.
(superl.) Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Joyous, joyful, blissful, blessed, blest.[2]. Pleased, gratified, delighted, rejoiced, glad, gladdened, charmed.[3]. Lucky, fortunate, prosperous, successful.[4]. Ready, apt, skilful, adroit, dexterous, expert, able.[5]. Seasonable, opportune, befitting, pertinent, felicitous, well-timed.[6]. Auspicious, propitious, favorable.
Editor: Maggie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Lucky, fortunate, felicitous, successful, delighted, joyous, merry, blithesome,prosperous, glad, blissful
ANT:Unlucky, unfortunate, infelicitous, unsuccessful, sorrowful, sorry,disapointed, dull, lugubrious, desponding, unhappy
Typist: Portia
Definition
adj. lucky successful: possessing or enjoying pleasure or good: secure of good: furnishing enjoyment: dexterous apt felicitous.—v.t. (Shak.) to make happy.—v.t. Happ′ify to make happy.—adv. Happ′ily.—n. Happ′iness.—adj. Happ′y-go-luck′y easy-going: taking things as they come.—adv. in any way one pleases.—Happy despatch a euphemism for the Hara-kiri (q.v.).
Typist: Patricia
Examples
- I have something beyond this, but I will call it a defect, not an endowment, if it leads me to misery, while ye are happy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands, said Mrs. March decidedly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Won't you say yes--I will devote my life to making you very happy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It is like the happy old times to have you here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The fine crisp morning made her mother feel particularly well and happy at breakfast-time. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Anselmo was happy now and he was very pleased that he had stayed there at the post of observation. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was a good man; good and happy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I will discipline my sorrowing heart to sympathy in your joys; I will be happy, because ye are so. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Where affection is reciprocal and sincere, and minds are harmonious, marriage _must_ be happy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- If I do come again, I hope I shall find you better, I said; better and happier. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The common man in France was more free, better off, and happier during the Terror than he had been in 1787. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But other generations will arise, and ever and for ever will continue, to be made happier by our present acts, to be glorified by our valour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She suddenly looked up at me with a faint reflection of her smile of happier times--the most irresistible smile I have ever seen on a woman's face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It made my second year much happier than my first; and, what was better still, made Dora's life all sunshine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Oh, but I am happier than usual to-day, answered I, very naturally. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I am much happier,' said Eugene. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My dear Maurice, you will be happier in the actual battle than in all the statecraft which leads to it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I should be much happier if we were reconciled. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I can be happier in nothing than in your happiness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was the happiest hour I had in the whole day. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His manners are certainly not the happiest in nature. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I was the happiest of the happy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Relieve us from this fear, and we shall be the happiest creatures in the world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- That was the happiest time of his life: that was the spot he would have chosen now to awake in and find the rest a dream. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I warned the inmates of the house, so as to avoid a second tragedy, and we went down, with the happiest results. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Jones, a dried-in man of businessstood behind his desk: he seemed one of the greatest, and I one of the happiest of beings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But the happiest regulation in French railway government is--thirty minutes to dinner! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs. Weston, with her baby on her knee, indulging in such reflections as these, was one of the happiest women in the world. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I am the happiest creature in the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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