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Happy   /hˈæpi/   Listen
Happy

adjective
(compar. happier; superl. happiest)
1.
Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure.  "Spent many happy days on the beach" , "A happy marriage"
2.
Marked by good fortune.  Synonym: felicitous.  "A happy outcome"
3.
Eagerly disposed to act or to be of service.  Synonym: glad.
4.
Well expressed and to the point.  Synonym: well-chosen.  "A few well-chosen words"



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"Happy" Quotes from Famous Books



... things than crystals to read in, after all, Richard," she said at last. Then she lifted her hands almost brusquely and stepped back. "All the same it is stupid I should have to go away," she continued, speaking more to herself than to him. "I am happy here. And when I am happy it's easy to be good—and I like ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... most striking evidence of its importance is its representation on the illustrated coinage of the 17th century. These multiple talers (figs. 1, 2, 3), happy products of the ingenious fiscal policies of the Dukes of Brunswick, picture mining activity in the 17th century no less elegantly than do the woodcuts of De re metallica a century earlier. The Stangenkunst received its most spectacular application in France, in its application ...
— Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later • Robert P. Multhauf
... skill they had willingly committed their fortunes and themselves, who had ruled them as with a rod of iron, whose will was their law, who had held their very lives in his hands, at whose caprice they were either happy or miserable, and who now lay there without the power to move so much as a finger either to help or hurt them, and whose lifeless clay they were about to launch to its last resting-place, there to repose "till the sea gives ...
— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... the world until you are confident of your suitability for the work. Remember that this moment of decision is a very important time and that you may be upon the threshold of a dangerous mistake. Remember that there are thousands of successful and happy teachers for ...
— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke
... . . . Why, just listen to the tales your lawful spouse is spreading now! It appears that I am a scoundrel and a villain, that I have ruined you and the children. All of you are unhappy, and I am the only happy one! Wonderfully, wonderfully happy!" ...
— The Party and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov


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