happy

The word “happy” has 2 syllables: hap-py

It's pronounced as /ˈhæpi/

What is synonym and antonym for happy?

In the thesaurus, “happy” has 189 synonyms and 140 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for happy along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for happy

able
absorbed
acceptable
accidental
adequate
advantageous
anxious
appeased
applicable
appropriate
apt
ardent
auspicious
balanced
beaming
beatific
becoming
befitting
beneficial
benign
blessed
blest
blissful
blithe
blithesome
bright
buoyant
capable
chance
cheerful
cheery
chipper
chirpy
chuffed
coincidental
companionate
competent
concerned
condign
congruous
consonant
content
contented
convenient
convivial
correct
crazy
cut out
decent
decorous
delighted
deserved
distracted
dotty
ecstatic
elated
encouraging
engaged
engrossed
enraptured
entranced
enviable
euphoric
exhilarated
exuberant
exultant
fair
favorable
favored
felicitous
fervent
fervid
feverish
fit
fitted
fitting
flukey
fluky
flying high
foolish
fortuitous
fortunate
full
gay
gifted
glad
gladsome
gleeful
golden
good
gratified
halcyon
harmonious
heartening
heaven-sent
hopeful
hot
hung up
impassioned
in order
intoxicated
involved
jocund
jolly
jovial
joyful
joyous
jubilant
just
justified
knee-deep
kosher
laughing
light
lighthearted
lively
lucky
meet
merry
mirthful
mollified
needed
nice
nuts
obsessed
occupied
on cloud nine
opportune
optimistic
overjoyed
pacified
passionate
peaceful
peppy
perky
pitch-perfect
placated
pleasant
pleased
preoccupied
prepossessed
pretty
privileged
profitable
promising
proper
propitious
providential
qualified
queer
rapt
rapturous
rejoicing
required
requisite
respectable
rhapsodic
rhapsodical
right
rightful
rosy
sanguine
satisfactory
satisfied
seasonable
seemly
serendipitous
serviceable
silly
smiling
sparkling
successful
suitable
sunny
thankful
thrilled
tickled
tickled pink
timely
tolerable
trained
unexpected
unforeseen
unlooked-for
up
upbeat
walking on air
well-timed
worried

Antonyms for happy

abject
aggrieved
anguished
anticipated
apathetic
black
blue
brokenhearted
calamitous
casual
catastrophic
cool
cursed
curst
dark
dejected
deliberate
depressed
desolate
despondent
detached
disadvantaged
disaffected
disappointed
disastrous
disconsolate
discontent
discontented
discouraged
disgruntled
disheartened
disinterested
dispassionate
dispirited
displeased
dissatisfied
disturbed
doleful
dolorous
down
downcast
downhearted
expected
foreseen
forlorn
forsaken
gloomy
glum
graceless
grave
gray
grey
grieved
hapless
heartbroken
heartsick
hopeless
ill-fated
ill-starred
improper
inadequate
inapplicable
inapposite
inappropriate
inapt
inauspicious
incapable
incompatible
incompetent
incongruous
inconvenient
incorrect
incurious
indecent
indecorous
indifferent
inept
inexpert
infelicitous
inopportune
insouciant
intentional
intolerable
joyless
lachrymose
luckless
malapropos
malcontent
malcontented
melancholy
misbecoming
miserable
morose
mournful
nonchalant
not happy
pained
plaintive
planned
sad
serious
snakebit
snakebitten
sorrowful
sorry
star-crossed
troubled
unacceptable
unapt
unbecoming
unbeseeming
unconcerned
uncongenial
uncurious
unenthusiastic
unfit
unfitting
unfortunate
unhappy
uninterested
uninvolved
unlucky
unmeet
unpleased
unpromising
unqualified
unsatisfactory
unsatisfied
unseasonable
unseemly
unskilled
unskillful
unsuitable
untimely
untrained
upset
woebegone
woeful
wretched
wrong

Meanings of happy

noun
1. A happy event, thing, person, etc.
2. Preceded by the: happy people as a group.
verb
1. Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
2. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
adjective
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.
2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
4. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
5. (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
6. (of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.

Example Sentences

She felt happy when she received the good news.
It was a happy occasion as everyone gathered to celebrate his birthday.
They had a happy reunion after years of being apart.
The children were happy to see their favorite movie at the theater.
A happy atmosphere filled the room during the holiday dinner.

On this page you'll find 329 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to happy, such as: abject, able, absorbed, acceptable, accidental, adequate, advantageous.

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