happy

/ˈhæpiː/

#1,254 of the most-used English words

noun

1. A happy event, thing, person, etc.

noun

1. Preceded by the: happy people as a group.

verb

1. Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
2. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Similar: happify

adjective

1. 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. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
   "Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?"
4. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
   "a happy coincidence"

Similar: cheerful, content, delighted, elated, exultant, glad