happy
21happy — 1 fortunate, *lucky, providential Analogous words: *accidental, incidental, fortuitous, casual: *favorable, auspicious, propitious, benign: opportune, timely (see SEASONABLE) Antonyms: unhappy 2 felicitous, apt, appropriate, fitting, * …
22happy — hap|py W1S1 [ˈhæpi] adj comparative happier superlative happiest [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: hap chance, luck (13 20 centuries), from Old Norse happ] 1.) having feelings of pleasure, for example because something good has happened to you or you are …
23happy */*/*/ — UK [ˈhæpɪ] / US adjective Word forms happy : adjective happy comparative happier superlative happiest Get it right: happy: Although the adjective happy ends in the letter y , the related noun happiness is spelled with an i (not a y ): Wrong:… …
24happy — adjective 1 having feelings of pleasure, for example because something good has happened to you: Larry looked really happy when we gave him his present. | He was a happy child who rarely cried. | be happy to be doing sth: They felt happy to be… …
25happy — [[t]hæ̱pi[/t]] ♦♦ happier, happiest 1) ADJ GRADED Someone who is happy has feelings of pleasure, usually because something nice has happened or because they feel satisfied with their life. Marina was a confident, happy child... I m just happy to… …
26happy*/*/*/ — [ˈhæpi] adj 1) feeling pleased and relaxed, with no worries Ant: unhappy The children seem very happy at school.[/ex] Sarah felt happy for the first time in her life.[/ex] Money alone will never make you happy.[/ex] You deserve all this success.… …
27happy — adj. 1) happy about; with 2) (colloq.) happy for (we are happy for them) 3) happy to + inf. (I ll be happy to attend the meeting; she ll be happy to work here = she ll be happy working here) 4) happy that + clause (they are very happy that the… …
28happy — /ˈhæpi / (say hapee) adjective (happier, happiest) 1. characterised by or indicative of pleasure, content, or gladness: a happy mood. 2. delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person. 3. favoured by fortune; …
29happy — adj. 1 feeling pleasure VERBS ▪ appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound ▪ Outwardly the couple appeared happy. ▪ Andrew felt happier than he had …
30happy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fortunate, lucky; gay, contented, joyous, ecstatic; felicitous, apt; glad. See agreement, cheerfulness, pleasure, occasion. Ant., sad, II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In good humor] Syn. joyous, joyful,… …
