Happy I ˈhæpi Family Pleased Extra Examples Time

• a happy family
• a happy smile/face
• you don't look very happy today.
• he always seemed happy enough.

happy

Word Family

• happy adjective (≠ unhappy)
• happily adverb (≠ unhappily)
• happiness noun (≠ unhappiness)
1. feeling or showing pleasure; pleased
• a happy family
• a happy smile/face
• You don't look very happy today.
• He always seemed happy enough.
• I've never felt so happy.
• Money won't make you happy.
• We are happy to announce the engagement of our daughter.
• I'm very happy for you.
• I’m happy (that) you could come.

Extra Examples

• I looked around at all the happy faces.
• For the first time in her life, she felt truly happy.
• I can die happy knowing that I have achieved this.
• I'm just happy to be back home.
• Outwardly the couple appeared happy.
2. giving or causing pleasure
• She had a very happy life.
• a happy marriage/childhood/occasion
• I have many happy memories from that time.
• The story has a happy ending.
• Those were the happiest days of my life.
• It had been a gloriously happy time.
3. if you wish somebody a Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, etc. you mean that you hope they have a pleasant celebration
4. satisfied that something is good or right; not anxious
• I don't know what you've done, but the boss isn't happy.
• I said I'd go just to keep him happy.
• Are you happy with that arrangement?
• I'm not happy with his work this term.
• She was happy enough with her performance.
• If there's anything you're not happy about, come and ask.
• I'm not too happy about her living alone.

Extra Examples

• Dad seemed perfectly happy with my explanation.
• I was quite happy with the way things went.
• He went home from time to time, to keep his mother happy.
• Her boss was not entirely happy about the situation.
• I'm not too happy about her attitude.
5. willing or pleased to do something
• I'm perfectly happy to leave it till tomorrow.
• People seemed quite happy to help.
• He will be more than happy to come with us.
• We'd be only too happy to accept your invitation.
6. lucky; successful
• SYNONYM fortunate
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• By a happy coincidence, we arrived at exactly the same time.
• He is in the happy position of never having to worry about money.

Extra Examples

• By a happy chance, I got a hotel room just five minutes from the university.
• I picked the restaurant pretty much at random, but it proved a happy choice all round.
7. suitable and appropriate for a particular situation
• That wasn't the happiest choice of words.
8. (not) pleased about a situation
• She wasn't a happy bunny at all.
9. the birth of a baby
10. a course of action that is not extreme
11. something that is in the middle between two choices or two ways of doing something
• She tried to strike a happy medium between making the questions too hard and making them too easy.
12. used to wish somebody a happy and pleasant birthday

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘lucky’): from the noun hap ‘good fortune’ + -y.