happy

adj.

1 feeling pleasure

VERBS

▪ appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound

▪

Outwardly the couple appeared happy.

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Andrew felt happier than he had been for a long time.

▪ become

▪ make sb

▪

Money won't make you happy.

▪ keep sb

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He went home from time to time, to keep his mother happy.

▪ die

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I can die happy knowing that I have achieved this.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ only too, particularly

▪

We'd be only too happy to accept your invitation.

▪ completely, perfectly

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Dad seemed perfectly happy with my explanation.

▪ genuinely, truly

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For the first time in her life, she felt truly happy.

▪ far from, not altogether, not at all, not entirely, not exactly, not particularly, not too, not totally

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Her boss was not entirely happy about the situation.

▪ relatively

▪ just

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I'm just happy to be back home.

▪ amazingly, blissfully, deliriously, ecstatically, ridiculously, strangely, surprisingly

▪ clearly, obviously

PREPOSITION

▪ about

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I'm not too happy about her attitude.

▪ for

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So you're getting married, I hear. I'm really happy for you!

▪ with

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I was quite happy with the way things went.

2 giving pleasure

VERBS

▪ be, seem

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ gloriously (esp. BrE), particularly, wonderfully

▪

It had been a wonderfully happy time.

▪ quite

Happy is used with these nouns: ↑accident, ↑association, ↑atmosphere, ↑balance, ↑chance, ↑childhood, ↑choice, ↑coincidence, ↑collaboration, ↑combination, ↑compromise, ↑couple, ↑customer, ↑day, ↑disposition, ↑ending, ↑event, ↑face, ↑family, ↑girl, ↑grin, ↑home, ↑hour, ↑knack, ↑laughter, ↑life, ↑marriage, ↑memory, ↑mood, ↑news, ↑occasion, ↑old age, ↑outcome, ↑pair, ↑people, ↑period, ↑person, ↑relationship, ↑retirement, ↑return, ↑reunion, ↑self, ↑shopper, ↑situation, ↑smile, ↑tear, ↑thought, ↑time, ↑tune, ↑year