📒 feeling or showing pleasure; pleased
- a happy family
- a happy smile/face
- You don't look very happy today.
📒 giving or causing pleasure
- She had a very happy life.
- a happy marriage/childhood/occasion
- I have many happy memories from that time.
📒 if you wish somebody a Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, etc. you mean that you hope they have a pleasant celebration
📒 satisfied that something is good or right; not anxious
- I don't know what you've done, but the boss isn't happy.
- I said I'd go just to keep him happy.
- happy with somebody/something Are you happy with that arrangement?
📒 willing or pleased to do something
- I'm perfectly happy to leave it till tomorrow.
- People seemed quite happy to help.
- He will be more than happy to come with us.
📒 lucky; successful
- By a happy coincidence, we arrived at exactly the same time.
- He is in the happy position of never having to worry about money.
- By a happy chance, I got a hotel room just five minutes from the university.
📒 suitable and appropriate for a particular situation
- That wasn't the happiest choice of words.
📒 (not) pleased about a situation
- She wasn't a happy bunny at all.
📒 the birth of a baby
📒 a course of action that is not extreme
📒 something that is in the middle between two choices or two ways of doing something
- She tried to strike a happy medium between making the questions too hard and making them too easy.
📒 used to wish somebody a happy and pleasant birthday