Happy
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
happy
adj 1: enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure; "a
happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a
happy marriage" [ant: {unhappy}]
2: marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy
outcome" [syn: {felicitous}, {happy}]
3: eagerly disposed to act or to be of service; "glad to help"
[syn: {glad}, {happy}]
4: well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a
few well-chosen words" [syn: {happy}, {well-chosen}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Happy \Hap"py\ (h[a^]p"p[y^]), a. [Compar. {Happier}
(-p[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Happiest}.] [From {Hap} chance.]
1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate;
successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy
expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
[1913 Webster]
Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments
than the causes of them. --Boyle.
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2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the
feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of
enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace,
tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours,
happy thoughts.
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Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps.
cxliv. 15.
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The learned is happy Nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more. --Pope.
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3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
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One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in
a in a rejoinder. --Swift.
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{Happy family}, a collection of animals of different and
hostile propensities living peaceably together in one
cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons
who are in fact mutually repugnant.
{Happy-go-lucky}, trusting to hap or luck; improvident;
easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carelessness." --W. Black.
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from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Happy, KY
Zip code(s): 41746
Happy, TX (town, FIPS 32156)
Location: 34.74135 N, 101.85587 W
Population (1990): 588 (293 housing units)
Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 79042
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Happy, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 647
Housing Units (2000): 295
Land area (2000): 1.065105 sq. miles (2.758608 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.065105 sq. miles (2.758608 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32156
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 34.743810 N, 101.857037 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79042
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Happy, TX
Happy
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
219 Moby Thesaurus words for "happy":
a propos, accepting, accidental, ad rem, adapted, addled,
advantageous, advisable, applicable, apposite, appropriate,
apropos, apt, at ease, auspicious, beaming, beatific, beatified,
becoming, beery, befitting, bemused, beneficial, benign, benignant,
besotted, blessed, blind drunk, blissful, blithe, blithesome,
bright, bright and sunny, capering, casual, cheerful, cheery,
chirping, civil, cock-a-hoop, cogent, comely, comfortable,
composed, congruous, content, contented, convenient, convincing,
correct, crapulent, crapulous, dancing, decent, decorous,
delighted, desirable, dizzy, dovetailing, drenched, drunk, drunken,
easy, easygoing, ecstatic, effective, effectual, efficacious,
efficient, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated,
expedient, exuberant, exultant, fair, far-gone, favorable,
favoring, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting,
flushed, flushed with joy, flustered, fortuitous, fortunate, fou,
fructuous, full, full of promise, gay, geared, genial, genteel,
giddy, glad, gladsome, gleeful, glorious, glowing, golden, good,
gratified, high, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits,
in liquor, in seventh heaven, incidental, inebriate, inebriated,
inebrious, inspired, intoxicated, irrepressible, jolly, joyful,
joyous, jubilant, just, just right, laughing, leaping,
light-hearted, lighthearted, likely, lucky, maudlin, meet, mellow,
merry, meshing, muddled, nappy, nice, of good cheer,
of good comfort, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise,
on cloud nine, on the button, opportune, optimistic, overjoyed,
pat, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch, politic, profitable,
promising, proper, propitious, prosperous, providential, purring,
qualified, radiant, recommendable, reconciled, reeling, relevant,
resigned, riant, right, ripe, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous,
sans souci, satisfied, seasonable, seemly, shikker, singing,
smiling, smirking, sodden, sortable, sotted, sparkling,
starry-eyed, suitable, suited, suiting, sunny, tailored, telling,
thrice happy, thrilled, tickled pink, tiddly, timely, tipsy,
to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, uncomplaining,
under the influence, unrepining, urbane, useful, well, well-chosen,
well-expressed, well-put, well-timed, winsome, wise, without care,
worthwhile
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