happy

Meanings

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

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.

Related

Similar words

• cheerful, content, delighted, elated, exultant, glad, joyful, jubilant, merry, orgasmic
• fortunate, lucky, propitious
• happify

Opposite words

• blue, depressed, down, miserable, moody, morose, sad, unhappy
• unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious
• disenchanted, dissatisfied
• inappropriate, inapt, unfelicitous

Origin

• From Middle English happy ("fortunate, happy"), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen, from Old Norse heppinn ("fortunate, happy"); assimilated to be equivalent to hap + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn ("lucky"), Scots happin ("fortunate, blessed"). See further at hap.