(superl.) Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
(superl.) Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.
(superl.) Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(2) Infants were habituated to models posing either prototypically positive displays (e.g., happy expressions) or positive expression blends (e.g., mock surprise).
(3) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(4) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
(5) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
(6) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.
(7) As for gay men, there is absolutely nothing that suggests they are any less war-happy than heterosexuals.
(8) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(9) That latter issue is quite controversial in Germany, where the Bundesbank is not happy about surrendering control to the ECB .
(10) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(11) Outwardly, his life was successful, happy, on course.
(12) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
(13) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
(14) I was just happy he got his licence back so I could clean him out."
(15) He is an academy product and truthfully we are, and me above all, happy to have him with us.
(16) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
(17) Indeed, the distribution of couples according to a multifactorial risk index does in fact establish a connection between the couple's happiness and the level of risk during sexual relations within and outside the couple.
(18) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(19) I can calmly say that his future will still be at Juventus, where he feels very happy,” he parped.
(20) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
Vivacious
Definition:
(a.) Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.
(a.) Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
(a.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.
Example Sentences:
(1) In court on Wednesday, Masipa described Steenkamp as “young, vivacious, full of life and hopes for the future”.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jo Cox: ‘We’ve lost a great star’ – video obituary “Jo Cox was the most vivacious, personable, dynamic and committed friend you could ever have,” he said.
(3) In the 2nd week, however, a vivacious bone remodelling with wide Haversian canals and vessels starts from the medial cortex as could be seen identically in every series of our experiments.
(4) Reviewing, the Guardian’s Andrew Clements admired the work’s vivid and vivacious writing.
(5) Most foreigners were struck by the affluence, vivacious commerce and great manufacturing capacity of the Georgians.
(6) Judy was under five feet tall, a sprightly figure, vivacious and pretty rather than beautiful, her pale skin accentuated by the bright red of her lips in the old three-strip Technicolor.
(7) Fibroblasts which vivaciously produced collagenous material invaded the xenografts and built up solid strands of connective tissue which tightly contacted surviving tumor cells.
(8) Her mother, Sally, described the four-week trial as an "awful experience" in which her "happy vivacious, fun-loving girl" had been defamed.
(9) The second group of dogs never became normoglycemic but remained vivacious; insulin level in their splenic vein increased moderately only after glucose injection.
(10) "When you hit it right on guitars in pop, it can be vivacious and exuberant and shiny.
(11) Produced by Sikandar Khan, Anjunaa Beach, which portrays Keeling as a vivacious teenager who rode elephants, hung out at beach shacks and occasionally took drugs, is already the subject of controversy.
(12) She described Steenkamp as “young, vivacious, full of life and hopes for the future”.
(13) The EMG findings were characterized by vivacious spontaneous activity and the high rate of different EMG pattern in one patient.
(14) "Her books are very popular and she's so vivacious," Donaldson said.
(15) Priya was the vivacious one, a bright five- year-old who loved music and wanted to be a teacher.
(16) Be playful and vivacious, but lose the teenage fantasy that you don't depend on anyone and they don't depend on you."
(17) Friends described her as vivacious, upbeat and larger than life.
(18) The bunny "has a sexual meaning", he said, "because it's a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping – sexy.
(19) Gone are the dark days when Catwoman and the Shadow prowled the murky recesses of the Blockbuster Video bargain bucket: instead, comic book fans have been treated to a series of vivacious and well-planned Marvel Studios films culminating in last year's $1.5bn The Avengers .
(20) They waited nine years for justice for their "happy and vivacious" daughter Milly.