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happiest

/ˈhæp.i.ɪst/

happiest is the superlative form of happy.

Meaning of happy

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.
  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
    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
  4. (usually, events, speech) Bringing or being an instance of favourable fortune; apt, felicitous, fortunate, propitious.
    • happy coincidence
  5. (in-compounds) Favoring or inclined to use.
    • slaphappy, trigger-happy

See all 17 meanings of happy

Questions about happiest

What is happiest the superlative form of?
Happiest is the superlative form of happy.
How do you pronounce happiest?
Happiest is pronounced /ˈhæp.i.ɪst/.

Words near happiest in the dictionary

  1. happi
  2. happie
  3. happied
  4. happier
  5. happies
  6. happiest
  7. happification
  8. happifications
  9. happified
  10. happifies
  11. happify

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