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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Translations

[ English

Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
none	river	change	#508: happy	hours	clear	pretty

[ Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhæpi/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -æpi

[ Etymology

hap + -y

[ Adjective

Wikipedia happy (comparative happier, superlative happiest)

1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire.

   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 favourable 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.

   happy hours

   happy thoughts

   happy times

   • Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord - Psalm 144:15
   • 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 rejoinder - Swift
4. Content (to do something); having no objection (to something).

   Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?

[ Synonyms

See WikiSaurus:happy

[ Antonyms

• sad
• unhappy

[ Derived terms

happify happily happiness happy as a lark happy as a pig in shit happy as Larry happy bunny

happy chappy happy-clappy happy families happy family happy-go-lucky happy hour happy slapping slap-happy trigger-happy

[ Translations

enjoying peace, comfort, etc; contented, joyous

Afrikaans: bly, gelukkig Asturian: feliz, contentu, gayoleru, gayasperu Croatian: sretan hr(hr) Czech: šťastný cs(cs) Danish: glad, lykkelig Dutch: gelukkig nl(nl), blij nl(nl) Esperanto: feliĉa eo(eo), kontenta eo(eo), gaja eo(eo) Estonian: ōnnelik Finnish: onnellinen fi(fi) French: heureux fr(fr) m., heureuse fr(fr) f., content fr(fr) m., contente fr(fr) f., bienheureux fr(fr) m., bienheureuse fr(fr) f. German: glücklich de(de) Greek: ευχαριστημένος el(el) m. (efcharistiménos), χαρούμενος el(el) m. (charoúmenos) Hebrew: מאושר (me'ooshar), שָׂמֵחַ (same'akh) Hindi: ख़ुश (khuś) , प्रसन्न (prasann) Hungarian: boldog hu(hu) Icelandic: hamingjusamur Indonesian: senang id(id) Irish: sona, séanmhar Italian: felice it(it) m. and f., lieto it(it) m., lieta it(it) f. Japanese: 幸せな (幸せな, shiawasena), 幸福な (こうふくな, kōfukuna) Korean: 행복하다 (haengbok-hada)

Kurdish: Sorani: دڵ خۆش ku(ku) (dill xosh), خه‌نی ku(ku) (xení) Latin: laetus la(la) Lithuanian: laimingas lt(lt) Mandarin: trad. 高興, simpl. 高兴 (gāoxìng), trad. 愉快, simpl. 愉快 (yúkuài) Norwegian: glad, lykkelig Old English: blīþe ang(ang), glæd ang(ang), ēadiġ ang(ang), wynfull ang(ang) Polish: szczęśliwy m., szczęśliwa f., szczęśliwe n., szczęśliwi plural, szczęśliwe plural,f. Portuguese: feliz pt(pt) Romanian: fericit ro(ro) m., bucuros ro(ro) m. Russian: счастливый ru(ru) (sčastlívyj) Scottish Gaelic: sona, toilichte, àghmhor Serbian: Cyrillic: срећан m. Roman: srećan m. Slovene: srečen sl(sl) Spanish: feliz es(es), alegre es(es), contento es(es), satisfecho es(es), ecuanime es(es) Swedish: glad sv(sv) c., glatt sv(sv) n., lycklig sv(sv) c., lyckligt sv(sv) n. Thai: มีความสุข (mee kwaam sòok) Turkish: mutlu tr(tr) Vietnamese: mừng vi(vi)

fortunate

Afrikaans: gelukkig Arabic: مَحْظوظ Catalan: feliç Chinese: trad. 幸運的, simpl. 幸运的 (xìngyùnde) Czech: šťastný cs(cs) Danish: heldig da(da) Dutch: gelukkig nl(nl) Esperanto: feliĉa eo(eo) Estonian: õnnelik Finnish: hyvä fi(fi), onnekas fi(fi), onnellinen fi(fi) French: heureux fr(fr) m., heureuse fr(fr) f., chanceux fr(fr) m., chanceuse fr(fr) f. German: glücklich de(de) Greek, Modern: ευτυχής (eftikhis) m., ευτυχισμένος (eftikhismenos) m. Hindi: ख़ुश (khuś) , प्रसन्न (prasann) Hungarian: szerencsés hu(hu) Icelandic: heppilegur is(is) Indonesian: untung, mujur Italian: fortunato it(it) m., fortunata it(it) f. Japanese: 幸運な (こううんな, kōunna), 運のよい (うんのよい, un no yoi)

Korean: 운좋은 (unjoheun) Kurdish: Sorani: به‌خته‌وه‌ر ku(ku) (bextewer) Latin: felix la(la) Lithuanian: laimingas Norwegian: heldig no(no) Portuguese: feliz pt(pt) Romanian: norocos Russian: удачный ru(ru) (udáchnyj) Serbian: Cyrillic: срећан m. Roman: srećan m. Slovak: šťastný sk(sk) Slovene: srečen sl(sl) Spanish: afortunado es(es), feliz es(es) Swedish: gynnsam c., gynnsamt n., lyckad c., lyckat n. Turkish: şanslı tr(tr) Vietnamese: sướng vi(vi), sung sướng vi(vi), may vi(vi), may mắn vi(vi), hạnh phúc vi(vi)

dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous

Afrikaans: handig, kundig, slim Dutch: handig, bedreven, kundig Esperanto: feliĉa eo(eo)

Finnish: kätevä fi(fi), aulis fi(fi) Greek: ευτυχής (eftikhis) m., ευτυχισμένος (eftikhismenos) m. Vietnamese: tài tình vi(vi)

content (to do something); having no objection (to something)

Afrikaans: tevrede, gelukkig Catalan: feliç Czech: spokojený cs(cs) Dutch: tevreden nl(nl) Esperanto: vole (willingly), kun plezuro (with pleasure), kontenta pri (happy with) Finnish: halukas, suostuvainen French: satisfait fr(fr) m. German: mit (etwas) einverstanden sein Hungarian: elégedett; meg van elégedve

Italian: contento it(it) m., contenta it(it) f. Norwegian: fornøyd Romanian: mulţumit Scottish Gaelic: toilichte, sàsaichte Serbian: Cyrillic: задовољан m. Roman: zadovoljan m. Swedish: nöjd sv(sv) c., nöjt sv(sv) n. Vietnamese: vui lòng

• Arabic: سعيد (sa‘íd)
• Irish: sásta
• Konkani: khoxi
• Tagalog: maligaya, masaya
• Welsh: dedwydd, gwynfydedig, hapus, swynedig