Usually means: Feeling joy, satisfaction, and contentment.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word happy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. happy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. happy, happy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. happy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -happy, happy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. happy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Happy, happy: Wordnik
  7. happy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Happy, happy: Wiktionary
  9. happy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. happy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. happy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Happy, happy: Dictionary.com
  13. happy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. happy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Happy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. happy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. happy: Rhymezone
  19. happy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. happy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. happy: Free Dictionary
  22. happy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. happy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. -happy, happy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. happy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -happy, happy: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Happy: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Happy, -happy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. -happy, happy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HAPPY: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. -happy, happy: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. happy, happy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See happier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
adjective:  Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
adjective:  (archaic) Elect or saved after death, blessed.
adjective:  Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
adjective:  (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
adjective:  (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
adjective:  (rare, of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.
adjective:  Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.
noun:  (informal, rare) A happy event, thing, person, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
verb:  (transitive, informal) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in White County, Arkansas.
noun:  A township in Graham County, Kansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky.
noun:  A town in Randall County and Swisher County, Texas.

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