3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Happy \Hap"py\ (h[a^]p"p[y^]), a. [Compar. {Happier} (-p[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Happiest}.] [From {Hap} chance.] 1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. [1913 Webster] Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] 2. Experiencing the effect of favorable 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; as, happy hours, happy thoughts. [1913 Webster] Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps. cxliv. 15. [1913 Webster] The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous. [1913 Webster] One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. --Swift. [1913 Webster] {Happy family}, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. {Happy-go-lucky}, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carelessness." --W. Black. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: happiest See {happy} From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: happy adj 1: enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage" [ant: {unhappy}] 2: experiencing pleasure or joy; "happy you are here"; "pleased with the good news" [syn: {pleased}] 3: marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome" [syn: {felicitous}] 4: satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment; "felt content with her lot"; "quite happy to let things go on as they are" 5: exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation [syn: {euphoric}] [ant: {dysphoric}] 6: well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words"; "a felicitous comment" [syn: {well-chosen}] [also: {happiest}, {happier}]
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