happy

Meanings

Plural: happies

Adjective

• enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
  • "a happy smile"
  • "spent many happy days on the beach"
  • "a happy marriage"

Adjective Satellite

• marked by good fortune
  • "a happy outcome"
• eagerly disposed to act or to be of service
• well expressed and to the point
  • "a happy turn of phrase"

Adj

• 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.
• Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
• Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
• Elect or saved after death, blessed.
• Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
• Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
• Favoring or inclined to use.
• Dexterous, ready, skilful.
• 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

• A happy event, thing, person, etc.

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.

Synonyms

beatify, begladden, berserk, blissed out, blissen, blithe, blithen, blithesome, bonnie, bright, buoyant, cheer, cheer up, cheerful, cheerly, cheery, chirk, chuffed, cock-a-hoop, content, contented, convivial, delight, delighted, ebullient, ecstatic, elate, elated, enbliss, euphoric, excited, exhilarate, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, fain, fat and happy, felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate, freak, gassed, gay, gayful, glad, gladden, gladden someone's heart, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, gratify, happify, happy, happy as a clam, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a lark, happy as a pig in mud, happy as a pig in shit, happy as a prince, happy as Larry, happy as the day is long, hearten, hearty, high on life, jollify, jovial, joyful, jubilant, laetificate, light up, liven up, lucky, make someone's day, merry, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, mirthsome, on cloud nine, over the moon, overjoyed, overjoyous, pacific, perk up, perky, placated, please, pleased, propitious, providential, raise someone's spirits, rejoice, satisfied, serendipitous, sonsy, thrilled, tickled pink, triumphant, turn the frown upside down, upcheer, vivacious, warm someone's heart, warm the cockles of someone's heart, wealful, well-chosen

Antonyms

blissed out, blissful, blue, cock-a-hoop, content, dejected, delighted, depressed, discontented, disenchanted, dissatisfied, down, ecstatic, elated, excited, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, gloomy, happy, inappropriate, inapt, jovial, joyful, miserable, moody, morose, on cloud nine, over the moon, overjoyed, pacific, perky, placated, pleased, sad, satisfied, thrilled, tickled pink, triumphant, unfelicitous, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unpropitious

Related Words

lucky, pleasure

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