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adjective (happ, ier)
  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 in finding experiments than the causes of them - Boyle
      1. 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 Nature to explore, The fool is that he knows no more - Pope
      1. dexterous, Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
    • One gentleman is at a reply, another excels in a rejoinder - Swift
      1. content, Content (to do something); having no objection (to something).
      Are you to pay me back by the end of the week?
Translations: 
  • Dutch: tevreden(nl)
  • French: satisfait(fr)m
  • German: mit (etwas) einverstanden sein
  • Italian: contenta(it, contento, m}}, {{t+, it)f
  • Spanish: afortunado(es), feliz(es)
Etymology: hap + -y

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