Happy Definition

hăpē
happier, happiest
adjective
happier, happiest
Favored by circumstances; lucky; fortunate.
Webster's New World
Having, showing, or causing a feeling of great pleasure, contentment, joy, etc.; joyous; glad; pleased.
Webster's New World
Cheerful; willing.
Happy to help.
American Heritage
Characterized by good luck.
American Heritage
Exactly appropriate to the occasion; suitable and clever; apt; felicitous.
A happy suggestion.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Happy

Adjective

Base Form:
happy
Comparative:
happier
Superlative:
happiest

Origin of Happy

  • From Middle English happy, from hap (“chance”) (from Old Norse; see hap for more) +‎ -y.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from hap luck hap

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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