English Explanatory Dictionary

happy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  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.
  2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.
  3. Elect or saved after death, blessed.
  4. Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
  5. Bringing or being an instance of favourable fortune; apt, felicitous, fortunate, propitious.
  6. Favoring or inclined to use.
  7. Dexterous, ready, skilful.
  8. Implying “May you have a happy ⁓” or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.
noun
  1. A happy event, thing, person, etc.
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.
name
  1. A male given name.
  2. A surname transferred from the nickname.
  3. A place in the United States:
  4. An unincorporated community in White County, Arkansas.
  5. A township in Graham County, Kansas.
  6. An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky.
  7. A town in Randall County and Swisher County, Texas.

Pronunciation

/ˈhæpi/ En-uk-happy.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-happy.wav en-us-happy.ogg en-au-happy.ogg /ˈhape/ /ˈhapɪ/ /ˈhapi/

Word forms

happy happier more happy happiest most happy happie happies happying happied Happys

Etymology

From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Faroese heppin (“fortunate, lucky, happy”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.

Synonyms

berserk blissed out blithe buoyant blithesome bonnie bright cheerful cheerly cheery chuffed cock-a-hoop content contented convivial delighted ebullient ecstatic elated enthusiastic euphoric excited exhilarated exuberant exultant fat and happy gassed gay gayful giddy glad gladsome gleeful gleesome happy hearty hyped high on life jovial joyful joyous merry mirthsome on cloud nine overjoyed overjoyous over the moon pacific perky placated pleased satisfied stoked thrilled tickled pink triumphant vivacious wealful happy as a clam happy as a clam at high water

Antonyms

dejected depressed discontented dissatisfied gloomy miserable sad unhappy blue down moody morose atrabiliary atrabilious blitheless dispirited bummed out chapfallen cheerless chopfallen crestfallen cut up damp despondent disgruntled disconsolate disheartened dismal doleful dolesome down in the dumps down in the mouth downcast downhearted downsome dull elegiac elegious forlorn glum grief-stricken grieving heavy-hearted heartsore heartsick inconsolable infelicitous jawfallen joyless lachrymose lamentful low low-spirited lugubrious lumpish melancholic melancholy mopey mournful passionate

Related words

lucky pleasure

Derived words

as happy as a pig in mud belated happy birthday dance-happy demob-happy fat and happy First Happy Time flag-happy gate-happy get happy gun-happy happification happify happiless happily happiness happy 4th happy as a box of birds happy as a clam happy as a clam at high water happy as a jaybird happy as a lark happy as a pig in mud happy as a pig in shit happy as a possum up a gum tree happy as a prince happy as a sandboy happy as Larry happy belated birthday happy birthday happy birthday in heaven happy bunny happy button happy camper happy chappy happy clapper happy-clappy happycore happy corner happy days happy day scenario happy despatch happy dispatch happy drunk happy Easter happy ending happy ever after happy families happy Fourth happy gas happy-go-lucky Happy Hallow happy Halloween happy Hanukkah happy hardcore happy holidays happy hour happy hunting ground happy Independence Day happyish Happy Jack

Translations

Afrikaans: gelukkig Southern Altai: ырысту Southern Altai: урматту Arabic: مَحْظُوظ Azerbaijani: bəxtli Azerbaijani: bəxti gətirən Azerbaijani: bəxtəvər Bulgarian: удачен Catalan: feliç Catalan: afortunat Chinese Mandarin: 幸運的 /幸运的 Czech: šťastný Danish: heldig Dutch: gelukkig Esperanto: feliĉa Estonian: õnnelik Finnish: hyvä Finnish: onnekas Finnish: onnellinen French: heureux French: chanceux Galician: afortunado German: glücklich Greek: ευτυχής Greek: ευτυχισμένος Ancient Greek: εὐτυχής Hindi: ख़ुश Hindi: प्रसन्न Hungarian: szerencsés Icelandic: heppilegur Ido: fortunoza Indonesian: untung Indonesian: mujur Ingrian: onnekas Irish: séanmhar Irish: sona Irish: sonasach Italian: fortunato Japanese: 幸運な Japanese: 運のよい Khmer: សប្បាយ Korean: 운좋은 Central Kurdish: بەختەوەر Kyrgyz: ырыстуу Ladino: mazalozo Ladino: afortunado Ladino: mazaludo Ladino: felis Latin: felix Lithuanian: laimingas Luxembourgish: glécklech Mizo: vannei Norman: heûtheux Norwegian: heldig Occitan: urós Occitan: astruc Occitan: aürós Occitan: fortunat Occitan: fortunós Occitan: benastruc Occitan: benastrat Occitan: benaürat Occitan: satisfach Old English: ġesǣliġ
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