happy
adjective
[ ˈhapi ]
• feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.
• "Melissa came in looking happy and excited"
Similar:
contented,
content,
cheerful,
cheery,
merry,
joyful,
jovial,
jolly,
joking,
jocular,
gleeful,
carefree,
untroubled,
delighted,
smiling,
beaming,
grinning,
glowing,
satisfied,
gratified,
buoyant,
radiant,
sunny,
blithe,
joyous,
beatific,
blessed,
cock-a-hoop,
in good spirits,
in high spirits,
in a good mood,
light-hearted,
good-humoured,
thrilled,
exuberant,
elated,
exhilarated,
ecstatic,
blissful,
euphoric,
overjoyed,
exultant,
rapturous,
rapt,
enraptured,
in seventh heaven,
on cloud nine,
over the moon,
walking on air,
beside oneself with joy,
jumping for joy,
chirpy,
on top of the world,
as happy as a sandboy,
tickled pink,
tickled to death,
like a dog with two tails,
as pleased as Punch,
on a high,
blissed out,
sent,
chuffed,
as happy as Larry,
made up,
as happy as a clam,
wrapped,
gay,
blithesome,
jocose,
jocund,
• fortunate and convenient.
• "he had the happy knack of making people like him"
Similar:
fortunate,
lucky,
favourable,
advantageous,
opportune,
timely,
well timed,
convenient,
propitious,
felicitous,
auspicious,
beneficial,
helpful,
appropriate,
apt,
fitting,
fit,
good,
right,
apposite,
proper,
seemly,
befitting,
• inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random.
• "they tended to be grenade-happy"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘lucky’): from the noun hap1 + -y1.
