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[ adjective ] enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune

Examples

"a happy smile" "spent many happy days on the beach" "a happy marriage"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

`` We 're just real happy for the players '' , Coach Bill_Meek said of the 9 - 7 victory over the Air_Force_Academy .

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

If it 's true that contented cows give more milk , why should n't happy ball players produce more base_hits ?

Now , apparently happier under new managers , Mays and Mantle , the perfect players , are behaving as though they 're going_to pass those previous peaks .

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Thereafter the audience waxed applause happy , but discriminating operagoers reserved judgment as her singing showed signs of strain , her musicianship some questionable procedure and her acting uncomfortable stylization .

(The Providence Journal...)

This is one of the happier events of the season .

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[ adjective ] experiencing pleasure or joy

Synonyms

pleased

Examples

"happy you are here" "pleased with the good news"

Used in print

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

Willie 's wonderful walloping Sunday - four home_runs - served merely to emphasize how happy he is to be playing for Alvin_Dark .

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

About the Pro_Arte 's contribution I am less happy .

(Leon Uris, Mila 8....)

`` When that woman found me and told me that you needed me I was never so happy since before the war '' .

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak_house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again .

Related terms

glad

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[ adjective ] marked by good fortune

Synonyms

felicitous

Examples

"a felicitous life" "a happy outcome"

Used in print

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

Poor_devil he can n't have been too happy either .

Related terms

fortunate

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[ adjective ] satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment

Synonyms

content

Examples

"felt content with her lot" "quite happy to let things go on as they are"

Used in print

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins ' , thinking that they might give him a drink .

Related terms

contented

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[ adjective ] well expressed and to the point

Synonyms

well-chosen

Examples

"a happy turn of phrase" "a few well-chosen words" "a felicitous comment"

Related terms

felicitous

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[ adjective ] well expressed and to the point

Synonyms

well-chosen

Examples

"a happy turn of phrase" "a few well-chosen words" "a felicitous comment"

Related terms

felicitous

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[ adjective ] exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

Synonyms

euphoric

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