happy

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈhæpi/|/ˈhapɪj/    /ˈhæpi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A happy event, thing, person, etc. informal,rare
    — The strike split the Chicano community. Many workers at Farah crossed picket lines and continued to keep the plant operating. They were known as the "happies" because they wore buttons which featured a smiling face and the slogan, "I'm happy at Farah. …"
动词 v.
  1. Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up. informal,intransitive
    — Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to "happy up."
  2. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven. informal,transitive
    — People really didn't want their Party Motivators in their photos, anonymous dancers, happying up the place. It spooked them.
形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
    — Music makes me feel happy.
  2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.
    — […] I think I may presume that what I have hitherto Diſcourſed will induce you to think, that Chymists have been much more happy in finding Experiments than the Cauſes of them; or in aſſigning the Principles by which they may beſt be explain’d.
  3. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.; Elect or saved after death, blessed. archaic
    — How fares it with the happy dead?
  4. Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
    — Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
  5. Bringing or being an instance of favourable fortune; apt, felicitous, fortunate, propitious. usually
    — happy coincidence
  6. Favoring or inclined to use. in-compounds
    — slaphappy, trigger-happy
  7. Dexterous, ready, skilful. often,rare
    — For inſtance, one lady can give an anſwer better than aſk a queſtion: one gentleman is happy at a reply; another excels in a rejoinder: one can revive a languiſhing converſation by a ſudden ſurpriſing ſentence; another is more dextrous in ſeconding; a third can fill the gap with laughing, or commending what has been ſaid.
  8. 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.
    — Happy birthday!

词形变化

happier comparative more happy comparative happiest superlative most happy superlative happie alternative,obsolete happies plural happies present,singular,third-person happying participle,present happied participle,past happied past

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词源 1
From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Faroese heppin (“fortunate, lucky, happy”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
词源 2
From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Faroese heppin (“fortunate, lucky, happy”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
词源 3
From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Faroese heppin (“fortunate, lucky, happy”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
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