happy

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈhæpi/]

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1. happy (adj) — sense 1

Definition: 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.

2. happy (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.

Example: […] I think I may presume that what I have hitherto Diſcourſed will induce you to think, that Chymists have been much more happy in finding Experiments than the Cauſes of them; or in aſſigning the Principles by which they may beſt be explain’d.

3. happy (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.: Elect or saved after death, blessed.

Example: How fares it with the happy dead?

4. happy (noun) — sense 4

Definition: A happy event, thing, person, etc.

Example: The strike split the Chicano community. Many workers at Farah crossed picket lines and continued to keep the plant operating. They were known as the "happies" because they wore buttons which featured a smiling face and the slogan, "I'm happy at Farah. …"

5. happy (verb) — sense 5

Definition: Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.

Example: Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to "happy up."

6. happy (verb) — sense 6

Definition: Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Example: People really didn't want their Party Motivators in their photos, anonymous dancers, happying up the place. It spooked them.

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