Happy \Hap"py\ (h[a^]p"p[y^]), a. [Compar. Happier
   (-p[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Happiest.] [From Hap chance.]
   1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate;
      successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy
      expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
      [1913 Webster]

            Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments
            than the causes of them.              --Boyle.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Experiencing the effect of favorable 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; as, happy hours,
      happy thoughts.
      [1913 Webster]

            Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps.
                                                  cxliv. 15.
      [1913 Webster]

            The learned is happy Nature to explore,
            The fool is happy that he knows no more. --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
      [1913 Webster]

            One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in
            a in a rejoinder.                     --Swift.
      [1913 Webster]

   Happy family, a collection of animals of different and
      hostile propensities living peaceably together in one
      cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons
      who are in fact mutually repugnant.

   Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident;
      easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carelessness." --W. Black.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	happy
     adj 1: enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good
            fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on
            the beach"; "a happy marriage" [ant: unhappy]
     2: experiencing pleasure or joy; "happy you are here"; "pleased
        with the good news" [syn: pleased]
     3: marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy
        outcome" [syn: felicitous]
     4: satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment; "felt
        content with her lot"; "quite happy to let things go on as
        they are"
     5: exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation [syn: euphoric]
        [ant: dysphoric]
     6: well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase";
        "a few well-chosen words"; "a felicitous comment" [syn: well-chosen]
     [also: happiest, happier]

	

	219 Moby Thesaurus words for "happy":
   a propos, accepting, accidental, ad rem, adapted, addled,
   advantageous, advisable, applicable, apposite, appropriate,
   apropos, apt, at ease, auspicious, beaming, beatific, beatified,
   becoming, beery, befitting, bemused, beneficial, benign, benignant,
   besotted, blessed, blind drunk, blissful, blithe, blithesome,
   bright, bright and sunny, capering, casual, cheerful, cheery,
   chirping, civil, cock-a-hoop, cogent, comely, comfortable,
   composed, congruous, content, contented, convenient, convincing,
   correct, crapulent, crapulous, dancing, decent, decorous,
   delighted, desirable, dizzy, dovetailing, drenched, drunk, drunken,
   easy, easygoing, ecstatic, effective, effectual, efficacious,
   efficient, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated,
   expedient, exuberant, exultant, fair, far-gone, favorable,
   favoring, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting,
   flushed, flushed with joy, flustered, fortuitous, fortunate, fou,
   fructuous, full, full of promise, gay, geared, genial, genteel,
   giddy, glad, gladsome, gleeful, glorious, glowing, golden, good,
   gratified, high, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits,
   in liquor, in seventh heaven, incidental, inebriate, inebriated,
   inebrious, inspired, intoxicated, irrepressible, jolly, joyful,
   joyous, jubilant, just, just right, laughing, leaping,
   light-hearted, lighthearted, likely, lucky, maudlin, meet, mellow,
   merry, meshing, muddled, nappy, nice, of good cheer,
   of good comfort, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise,
   on cloud nine, on the button, opportune, optimistic, overjoyed,
   pat, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch, politic, profitable,
   promising, proper, propitious, prosperous, providential, purring,
   qualified, radiant, recommendable, reconciled, reeling, relevant,
   resigned, riant, right, ripe, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous,
   sans souci, satisfied, seasonable, seemly, shikker, singing,
   smiling, smirking, sodden, sortable, sotted, sparkling,
   starry-eyed, suitable, suited, suiting, sunny, tailored, telling,
   thrice happy, thrilled, tickled pink, tiddly, timely, tipsy,
   to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, uncomplaining,
   under the influence, unrepining, urbane, useful, well, well-chosen,
   well-expressed, well-put, well-timed, winsome, wise, without care,
   worthwhile

	

	Happy
     
         A dyslexic acronym for "A Yacc-like Haskell Parser
        generator".
     
        An LALR1 grammar parser generator for Haskell.  Happy is
        written in Haskell, uses a parser generated by itself, and can
        be compiled using ghc, hbc or gofer.  Happy uses an
        implementation of monadic IO built on top of stream IO, but
        this should change when the Haskell 1.3 standard has been
        implemented.
     
        Version: 0.9 (1996-02-28).
     
        Happy is covered by the General Public License.
     
        Home (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/happy.html).
     
        (ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/happy/).
     
        E-mail: , .
     
        (1996-03-21)

	

	Happy, KY
  Zip code(s): 41746
Happy, TX (town, FIPS 32156)
  Location: 34.74135 N, 101.85587 W
  Population (1990): 588 (293 housing units)
  Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 79042

	

	Happy, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
   Population (2000):    647
   Housing Units (2000): 295
   Land area (2000):     1.065105 sq. miles (2.758608 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.065105 sq. miles (2.758608 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            32156
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             34.743810 N, 101.857037 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     79042
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Happy, TX
    Happy

	

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