happy
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
happy/ˈhapi/
▶adjective (happier, happiest)
- 1 feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.
■ willing to do or accept something.
- 2 fortunate and convenient: a happy coincidence.
- 3 [in combination] informal inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random: trigger-happy.
– phrases
(as) happy as a sandboy (or Brit. Larry or N. Amer. a clam) extremely happy. [prob. orig. denoting a boy hawking sand for sale.]
happy hunting ground a place where success or enjoyment is obtained. [orig. referring to the optimistic hope of American Indians for good hunting grounds in the afterlife.]
(as) happy as a sandboy (or Brit. Larry or N. Amer. a clam) extremely happy. [prob. orig. denoting a boy hawking sand for sale.]
happy hunting ground a place where success or enjoyment is obtained. [orig. referring to the optimistic hope of American Indians for good hunting grounds in the afterlife.]
– derivatives
happily adverb,
happiness noun.
happily adverb,
happiness noun.
'happy' also found in these Oxford entries:
blissful
- blithe
- bread
- camper
- cheerful
- cheery
- cloud
- demob-happy
- dissatisfied
- ecstatic
- elate
- eudaemonism
- exalted
- exhilarate
- fain
- felicitate
- felicity
- felix culpa
- glad
- golden
- halcyon
- happy-go-lucky
- happy hour
- -ily
- jolly
- jubilant
- kvell
- more
- overjoyed
- pleasant
- please
- pleasure
- return
- secret
- serendipity
- silly
- slap-happy
- top
- trigger-happy
- troll
- unhappy
- up
- well-being
