dictionary definitions for "happy"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments
              than the causes of them.              --Boyle.
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     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.
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              Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps.
                                                    cxliv. 15.
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              The learned is happy Nature to explore,
              The fool is happy that he knows no more. --Pope.
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     3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
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              One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in
              a in a rejoinder.                     --Swift.
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     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.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:

  Happy
  
     <tool> 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: <andy@dcs.gla.ac.uk>, <simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk>.
  
     (1996-03-21)
  


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