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Happy

adjective

(compar. happier; superl. happiest)

Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure. "Spent many happy days on the beach" , "A happy marriage"

Marked by good fortune. Synonym: felicitous. "A happy outcome"

Eagerly disposed to act or to be of service. Synonym: glad.

Well expressed and to the point. Synonym: well-chosen. "A few well-chosen words"

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"Happy" Quotes from Famous Books

... night of the seventh month; it may happen, by reason of bad weather, that they cannot meet for three or four years at a time. But their love remains immortally young and eternally patient; and they continue to fulfill their respective duties each day without fault,—happy in their hope of being able to meet on the seventh night ...

— The Romance of the Milky Way - And Other Studies & Stories • Lafcadio Hearn

... boy, and Ted and Jan wondered if it could be about their father and mother. Suppose one of them were ill, or suppose Daddy Martin had lost all his money, and Ted and Jan had to go back home? It doesn't take much to worry children, just as it doesn't take much to make them happy. ...

— The Curlytops and Their Playmates - or Jolly Times Through the Holidays • Howard R. Garis

... is now over; and since young Alexander has appeared, I hope no more difficulties will arise among you; for I sincerely wish you all happy. Do not teach the young ones to dislike me, as you dislike me yourself; but let me at least have Veronica's kindness, ...

— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell

... lot, you know, not really. It's just rotten luck. We might have been as happy as lords. When she bolted I suppose I ought to have let her go, but I couldn't do that—I was dead stuck on her then; ...

— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham

... fatality which prevents it. We make arrangements to go to town almost every year, to meet some old friend who combines the rare conditions of being in London with being mindful of me; but he has always died or gone elsewhere before the event has taken place.... But with a disposition to be happy, it is neither this place nor the other that can render us the reverse. In short each man's happiness depends upon himself, and his ability for doing with little.' He turned more particularly to Somerset, and added ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

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