Hāp'py, a.
a. [compar. HAPPIER; superl. HAPPIEST.] [Eng. hap; Icel. heppian, fortunate, heppni, chance felicity, W. hapus, happy, fortunate.]
Sense 1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; as, a happy thought; a happy expedient.
Chemists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. Doyle.
Sense 2. Enjoying good of any kind, peace, tranquillity, and comfort; possessed of bliss; contented in mind; delighted; satisfied.
The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. Pope.
He found himself happiest in communicating happiness to others. Wirt.
Sense 3. In circumstances or a condition of being favorable to such enjoyment; secure of good; prosperous; blessed.
Happy is that people whose God is the Lord. Ps. cxliv. 15.
Sense 4. Furnishing enjoyment; supplying happiness; as, a happy condition.
Sense 5. Dexterous; ready; able.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a rejoinder. Swift.
Sense 6. Propitious; favorable; as, a happy omen.