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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Happy \Hap"py\ (h[a^]p"p[y^]), adjective [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.
Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. --Boyle.
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.
Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps. cxliv. 15.
The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. --Pope.
3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. --Swift.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
happier See {happy}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
happy
adjective
1: enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage" [ant: {unhappy}]
2: experiencing pleasure or joy; "happy you are here"; "pleased with the good news" [syn: {pleased}]
3: marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome" [syn: {felicitous}]
4: satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment; "felt content with her lot"; "quite happy to let things go on as they are"
5: exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation [syn: {euphoric}] [ant: {dysphoric}]
6: well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words"; "a felicitous comment" [syn: {well-chosen}] [also: {happiest}, {happier}]
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