Happy
From Fresh Dictionary
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English
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| none | river | change | #508: happy | hours | clear | pretty |
Pronunciation
- IPA: /Ëhæpi/
- Image:Loudspeaker.png Audio (US)?, file
Etymology
Adjective
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Superlative |
- Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire.
- a happy expedient
- a happy effort
- a happy venture
- a happy omen
- Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them - Boyle
- Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
- happy hours
- happy thoughts
- happy times
- Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord - Psalm 144:15
- The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more - Pope
- Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
- One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a rejoinder - Swift
- Content (to do something); having no objection (to something).
- Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
Synonyms
See WikiSaurus:happy
Derived terms
Translations
fortunate
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enjoying peace, comfort, etc; contented, joyous
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dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous
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content (to do something); having no objection (to something)
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- Arabic: سعÙد
- Chinese, Simplified: æå¿«
- Estonian: Ånnelik
- Hebrew: ש×× [(sa-me-ach)]
- Irish: sásta, sona, séanmhar
- Japanese: å¬ãã (ãããã, ureshii), 幸ã (ãããã, shiawase)
- Latin: laetus
- Lithuanian: laimingas
- Norwegian: glad, lykkelig
- Polish: szczÄÅliwy
- Slovakian: šťastný
- Tagalog: maligaya, masaya
- Turkish: mutlu
- Welsh: dedwydd, gwynfydedig, hapus, swynedig
- Konkani: khoxifa:happy
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