-happy - The Dictionary

hap·py (h?p??)adj. hap·pi·er, hap·pi·est 1. Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy. See Synonyms at glad.2. Cheerful; willing: happy to help.3. Characterized by good luck. See Synonyms at fortunate.4. Being especially well-adapted; felicitous: a happy turn of phrase.5. a. Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination: trigger-happy.b. Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination: money-happy; clothes-happy.[Middle English, from hap, luck; see hap.]hap?pi·ly adv.hap?pi·ness n.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.happy (?hæp?) adj, -pier or -piest1. feeling, showing, or expressing joy; pleased2. willing: I’d be happy to show you around. 3. causing joy or gladness4. fortunate; lucky: the happy position of not having to work. 5. aptly expressed; appropriate: a happy turn of phrase. 6. (postpositive) informal slightly intoxicatedinterj(in combination): happy birthday; happy Christmas. [C14: see hap1, -y1] ?happily adv ?happiness nCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014hap?py (?hæp i) adj. -pi?er, -pi?est. 1. delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing. 2. characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy: a happy mood. 3. fortunate or lucky: a happy, fruitful land. 4. apt or felicitous, as actions, utterances, or ideas. 5. obsessed by or quick to use the item indicated (usu. used in combination): a trigger-happy gangster. [1300?50; see hap1, -y1] Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.glad – happy – cheerful1. ‘glad’If you are glad about something, you are pleased about it.You can also say that you are happy about something when you are pleased about it.If someone is contented and enjoys life, you say that they are happy.Be Careful!Don’t use ‘glad’ with this meaning, and don’t use ‘glad’ in front of a noun. Don’t say, for example, ‘She always seemed such a glad woman’.If someone shows that they are happy by smiling and laughing a lot, you say that they are cheerful.There are a number of adjectives which are used to indicate how happy or sad someone is. The adjectives in the following list are arranged from ‘most happy’ to ‘least happy’:You say that someone is lucky when something nice happens to them, or when they always seem to have good luck.Don’t use ‘lucky’ to say that someone has feelings of pleasure and contentment. The word you use is happy.