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ADJECTIVE happy COMPARATIVE happier SUPERLATIVE happiest
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happy English

Meaning happy meaning

What does happy mean?
Definitions in simple English

happy

When you feel happy, you feel positive, usually because something nice has happened. He was happy. Causing happiness. Her room is happy. Lucky. It was a happy chance that they met there.

happy

enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure a happy smile spent many happy days on the beach a happy marriage (= felicitous) marked by good fortune a felicitous life a happy outcome (= well-chosen) well expressed and to the point a happy turn of phrase a few well-chosen words (= glad) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service glad to help

Synonyms happy synonyms

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Topics happy topics

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Examples happy examples

How do I use happy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Your letter made me happy.
Are you happy in your house?
Happy Easter!
I am happy to hear your voice.
Ken looks happy.
She said that she was happy.
Have a happy Turkey day.
Happy is she who marries the son of a dead mother.
Everybody wants to be happy.
You look happy, so bright and early.
Happy birthday, Muiriel!
Happy New Year!
Don't worry, be happy!
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
I'm happy to see you again.
You look happy today.
Are you happy?
Aren't you happy?
Your smile always makes me happy.
I hope you have a happy future ahead of you.

Movie subtitles

Acting so happy.
The streets are clean, the people are happy.
Look, let's just be happy that Elder Cunningham has the people interested.
Elder Cunningham, I just wanted to say, we are very happy Heavenly Father brought you here.
I have never seen the people here so happy.
And I'm so happy you're about to be my first!
I'm not happy with this ventilation.
I'm happy to do the transfer.
Not even happy hour.
I just want him to be happy. Ooh!
And then, when you come back on Monday, I want you to be the happy Rebecca that we all know and love.
I'm just happy I have a spot at all.
This burrito is a symphony. Dr. Akopian's gonna be so happy to see me.
I'm really happy you're joining us, Angie.
I'm happy that French science could serve the mother of the prince of the faithful.
I'm so happy to see you!
Who knows, she might be happy.
She worked as a nurse, was radiantly happy, had found her place in society.
May you lead a happy life.
Paulin, I'm happy to see you.
Anyway, make sure the troops aren't trigger-happy.
Happy now, Ms. Song?
I'm sure, mostly, they're just happy that you're alive.
No, you just want to make sure she's happy. But me?
Man, we were so happy to see him.
I'm so happy you came.
If the Blessed are controlling the world from the shadows, they shouldn't be happy about having their cover blown.
So, here's the thing that makes most kids happy, but the teachers act like the peanut is the devil's bean.
I remember that day. happy times.
He just wants to protect her and make sure that she is happy.
Happy birthday, Section Chief.
Did he get a heart attack while being too happy?
If it was the first prize, it must have been truly disappointing. Your daughter is very pretty and nice. And your wife also said she's so happy to get to have a really good son-in-law.
So know that they are happy, and it's okay for you to go.
NOW, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT HAPPY SAM JOINED OUR TEAM. YEAH.
I-I'M JUST SO HAPPY THAT THEY STOPPED IT.
With just that I am happy.
You and I are happy.

News and current affairs

Not all are happy about this American notion.
But this scenario offers no happy ending for Europe.
The IPCC has magnanimously declared that it would have been happy if Gore had received the Nobel Peace prize alone.
Our politicians were happy to hear that they should love each other, though when Pope left they started to quarrel about the meaning of love.
But, the Irish story has not had a happy ending.
London - The British comic genius Spike Milligan once observed that he would love to have the opportunity to discover that money wouldn't make him happy.
When that day arrives, Americans had better pray that their creditors will be as happy to accept dollars as they are now.
Of course, neither environmental nor genetic advantages guarantee healthier, happy, successful children.
The Chinese government claims that Tibetans are happy.
In World War II, German corporations were all too willing to profit from the slave labor of those in concentration camps, and Swiss banks were happy to pocket the gold of Jewish victims of Nazi terror.
So, what will it take to write the happy ending?
Like many diplomatic compromises, the outcome left everyone a bit happy and a bit disappointed.
No American would be happy about branding the Boston Tea Party an act of terrorist aggression against British property.
Yet in 2006, when Israel and Hezbollah fought to a stalemate in Lebanon, states were only too happy to turn to a UN peacekeeping force.
And the world's only military superpower is often seen within China as trigger-happy when intervening in other countries' internal affairs.
Yet, despite these circumstances, one political party wants to gut tax revenues altogether, and the other is easily dragged along, against its better instincts, out of concern for keeping its rich contributors happy.
Our maladies are largely random, and even if our doctors cannot tell us which ones we will have in the next year, or eliminate all of our suffering when we have them, we are happy for the help that they can provide.
More than two years ago, I was notified that I was cleared for release. I would have been happy about this news if I did not come from Uzbekistan, a country with one of the worst human rights records in the world.
At first, I was happy to be in American hands.
That way, the accumulated wealth might make them very happy in their later years.
Even though people may admire other things, they act as if they are mostly happy enough with whatever they already have, and lack the will to consider real change.
In an updated lesson in realpolitik, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently was happy to count Pope Francis as an ally in opposing American military intervention in Syria.
Even at the end, when the United Nations Security Council voted on Gaza, Bush was happy to humiliate Condoleezza Rice at Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's bidding.
This is the British idea of Europe, and the German Constitutional Court, too, would probably be happy about such a development.
I would have been happy about this news if I did not come from Uzbekistan, a country with one of the worst human rights records in the world.
Ensuring high-quality output and local consumers' loyalty requires keeping their workforces happy and maintaining a positive public image.

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