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happy

About 49.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective 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.
    Music makes me feel happy.
  2. adjective Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.
  3. adjective Elect or saved after death, blessed.
  4. adjective Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
    Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
  5. adjective Bringing or being an instance of favourable fortune; apt, felicitous, fortunate, propitious.
    happy coincidence
  6. adjective Favoring or inclined to use.
    slaphappy, trigger-happy
  7. adjective Dexterous, ready, skilful.
  8. adjective 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.
    Happy birthday!

Similar words

pleased blissful content glad contented joyful euphoric joyous fortunate riant

Often followed by

to and in with as that about for ending

Word family

happier happiest

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