happy
Forms
- Comparative
- happier
- Superlative
- happiest
- Plural
- happies
- present (v1)
- happy
- past (v2)
- happied
- past participle (v3)
- happied
- present participle
- happying
- 3rd person singular
- happies
Definitions
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.
- Happy is that people that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
- Music makes me feel happy.
2.Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.
- How fares it with the happy dead?
3.Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
- Yes, I am happy with the decision.
- Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
- A strong acid is also a substance whose conjugate base (obviously a weak base) is quite happy with the excess electrons it got from that bond.
4.Bringing or being an instance of favourable fortune; apt, felicitous, fortunate, propitious.
- When happy events coincide, that is a happy coincidence. But the coincidence of baneful events is a happy coincidence too.
- The UK’s earliest reactors – a type called Magnox – were set up to harvest plutonium for bombs; the electricity was a happy byproduct.
1.A happy event, thing, person, etc.(informal)
1.Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.(informal)
- Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to "happy up."
2.Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.(informal)
- People really didn't want their Party Motivators in their photos, anonymous dancers, happying up the place. It spooked them.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #564
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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.