noun
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A happy event, thing, person, etc.
noun
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Preceded by the: happy people as a group.
verb
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Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
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Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
adjective
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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.
example
Music makes me feel happy.
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Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
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Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
example
Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
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(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
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a happy coincidence
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(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
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slaphappy, trigger-happy
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(of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.
Examples of happy in a Sentence
Are you trying to say that you're not happy with your success?
Happy to meet you at last, Yully.
It must be a beautiful and happy place; and I wish to know all about it.
I hope you two are happy together.
I'd be happy knowing you're safe.
I'm so happy to see you!
Maybe she wasn't happy with the way her parents lived.
I'm happy to help you, and I'm happy you came to visit.
I'm happy you're among us.
You are happy enough I no longer need to dull the pain.
These happy days did not last long.
In any case, Alex might not be happy with her old-fashioned ideas.
We're happy to see the attention directed elsewhere.
She feared seeing them happy again, knowing she really was nothing more than a disposable stand-in until they were able to be together again.
At any rate, Mr. Cade seems to be happy with his lifestyle.
Two blocks away we found a dark spot that catered to happy hour regulars.
So Mildred stayed with me in Cambridge, and for six happy months we were hardly ever apart.
If her pulse were any indication, she should be happy – and cautious.
The voices were not happy, and she was surprised to hear one of them.
You, personally, are pretty happy with the generic knockoff, which saves you a dollar and tastes the same to you.
I was very happy to receive pretty book and nice candy and two letters from you.
She linked my earliest thoughts with nature, and made me feel that "birds and flowers and I were happy peers."
Maybe he was happy to get rid of her.
Happy he who has ears to hear.
The happy Christmas time is almost here!
She'll be happy to see you.
Happy the man who wins her!
She wanted Gabriel to be happy but couldn't bear to see it, not when her own world was still so new and frightening.
She was happy for it.
My father made holes in these so that I could string them, and for a long time they kept me happy and contented.
I am very happy to write to you because I think of you and love you.
We're very happy together.
Little Benjamin Franklin was very happy; for he was only seven years old.
I told you that I was very happy because of your happiness.
Happy as Petya was, he felt sad at having to go home knowing that all the enjoyment of that day was over.
Jule was happy to piss off the little green-eyed troll.
It makes me happy to know much about my loving Father, who is good and wise.
Prince Vasili entered the room with the air of a happy conqueror who has attained the object of his desires.
She is always doing something to make some one happy, and her generosity and wise counsel have never failed my teacher and me in all the years we have known her.
I'll go wherever you go - and I'll be happy there.
The two years in New York were happy ones, and I look back to them with genuine pleasure.
They have her in pull-ups now and she's not happy about that.
He wasn't happy to be left out of the loop but at least he believed me and came around.
This good and happy news delighted me exceedingly, for then I was sure that I should learn also.
Oh, how happy I am!
Alex wasn't happy right now.
That type of heartache is rough, but I came to peace with it and was pretty happy with my expulsion, until a few days ago.
By the distaste in his voice, he wasn't happy about it.
But they were so happy and contented that I lost all sense of pain in the pleasure of their companionship.
It makes me most happy to remember the hours we spent helping each other in study and sharing our recreation together.