'appy

Adjective

happy (comparative happier or more happy, superlative happiest or most happy)

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.

   Synonyms:

   cheerful, content, delighted, elated, exultant, glad, joyful, jubilant, merry

   Antonyms:

   blue, depressed, down, miserable, moody, morose, sad, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious

2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.
   • […] 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.1661, Robert Boyle, “The Conclusion”, in The Sceptical Chymist, London: J. Cadwell, →OCLC, page 429

   Synonyms:

   fortunate, lucky, charmed, fortuitous, freak, providential, serendipitous, sonsy

   Antonyms:

   unfortunate, unlucky

   1. (archaic) Elect or saved after death, blessed.
      • How fares it with the happy dead?1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 66
3. Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
   • Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?

   Synonyms:

   pleased

   Antonyms:

   disenchanted, dissatisfied

4. (usually, events, speech) Bringing or being an instance of favourable fortune; apt, felicitous, fortunate, propitious.
   • happy coincidence

   Antonyms:

   inapt, unfelicitous, unfortunate, unpropitious

5. (in-compounds) Favoring or inclined to use.
   • slaphappy, trigger-happy

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