2syllables
happy
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Definitions ofhappy
1noun
- A happy event, thing, person, etc.
1noun
- Preceded by the: happy people as a group.
1verb
- 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.
1adjective
- 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."
- Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
- 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?"
- (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
Example: "a happy coincidence"
- (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
Example: "slaphappy, trigger-happy"
- (of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.
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