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Happy
HAP'PY a. [from hap.]
1. Lucky; fortunate; successful.
Chimists have been more happy in finding experiments, than the causes of them.
So we say, a happy thought; a happy expedient.
2. Being in the enjoyment of agreeable sensations from the possession of good; enjoying pleasure from the gratification of appetites or desires. The pleasurable sensations derived from the gratification of sensual appetites render a person temporarily happy; but he only can be esteemed really and permanently happy, who enjoys peace of mind in the favor of God. To be in any degree happy, we must be free from pain both of body and of mind; to be very happy, we must be in the enjoyment of lively sensations of pleasure, either of body or mind.
Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed. Gen 30.
He found himself happiest, in communicating happiness to others.
3. Prosperous; having secure possession of good.
Happy is that people whose God is Jehovah. Psa 144.
4. That supplies pleasure; that furnishes enjoyment; agreeable; applied to things; as a happy condition.
5. Dexterous; ready; able.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a rejoinder.
6. Blessed; enjoying the presence and favor of God, in a future life.
7. Harmonious; living in concord; enjoying the pleasures of friendship; as a happy family.
8. Propitious; favorable.
happy appears in definitions for these words:
Aed All-happy Anticipation As Beatific Beatify Bless Blessed Blessing Blest Blissful Bosom Citizen Climate Close Composure Congratulate Congratulated Congratulating Congratulation Countenance Ead Ed Elegance Elysium Enjoy Excellence Farewell Fast Favor Felicitate Felicitated Felicitating Felicitous Felicity Fortunate Gar Glad Golden Gone Good Gracefulness Gratitude Guess Halcyon Happily Happiness Happy Here High-blest Humanly Humbird Imparadise Imparadised Imparadising Infallibly Kind Kindly Macaroni Main Meeting Much Mund Newness Nice Of Officiously Persevere Rather Recess Refine Requisite Restitution Revert Run Saturnian Sing Sort Speed Style Successful Such Tenant Theatre Translate Ultimate Unconcerned Unhappy Union Universalism Unprepared War Well-water Where Within Yield
Aed All-happy Anticipation As Beatific Beatify Bless Blessed Blessing Blest Blissful Bosom Citizen Climate Close Composure Congratulate Congratulated Congratulating Congratulation Countenance Ead Ed Elegance Elysium Enjoy Excellence Farewell Fast Favor Felicitate Felicitated Felicitating Felicitous Felicity Fortunate Gar Glad Golden Gone Good Gracefulness Gratitude Guess Halcyon Happily Happiness Happy Here High-blest Humanly Humbird Imparadise Imparadised Imparadising Infallibly Kind Kindly Macaroni Main Meeting Much Mund Newness Nice Of Officiously Persevere Rather Recess Refine Requisite Restitution Revert Run Saturnian Sing Sort Speed Style Successful Such Tenant Theatre Translate Ultimate Unconcerned Unhappy Union Universalism Unprepared War Well-water Where Within Yield
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