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6 definitions found
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]:
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Happy A dyslexic acronym for "A Yacc-like Haskell Parser generator". An {LALR1 grammar} {parser generator} for {Haskell}. Happy is written in Haskell, uses a parser generated by itself, and can be compiled using {ghc}, {hbc} or {gofer}. Happy uses an implementation of {monadic IO} built on top of stream IO, but this should change when the {Haskell 1.3} {standard} has been implemented. Version: 0.9 (1996-02-28). Happy is covered by the {General Public License}. {Home (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/happy.html)}. {(ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/happy/)}. E-mail: , . (1996-03-21)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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) [gaz-place]:
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
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