happy

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.

Happye are thy men, and happie are these thy seruantes[…]

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.

"Historians, you think," said Miss Tilney, "are not happy in their flights of fancy. They display imagination without raising interest. […]"

Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.

How fares it with the happy dead?

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?

Yes, I am happy with the decision.

Bringing or being an instance of favourable fortune; apt, felicitous, fortunate, propitious.

happy coincidence

The common privilege of your ſex affords you the happy opportunity of alleviating your ſorrows by communicating your ſentiments and feelings to some faithful friend; but to women, even this relief is rigidly denied, and, bound by the harſh reſtraints which the delicacy and reſerve of female natures have impoſed, I muſt bear the ſecret of my ſorrows with painful ſilence.

A happy event, thing, person, etc.

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. …"

Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.

Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to "happy up."

[H]e smiled […] then asked my name. He checked it against his clipboard then sadly shook his head as if he'd been rejected himself. Told him I was looking for employment and he happied up again, able to help by directing me to apply at the front office, that the doors were on the Gower Street side.

Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

People really didn't want their Party Motivators in their photos, anonymous dancers, happying up the place. It spooked them.

[…] [William] Glasser would probably say that happy people are "happying" themselves by choosing behaviors that help them to feel happy (working at their relationships, engaging in productive work activities, participating in desired recreational activities, etc.).