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The correct spelling is happy.

How to pronounce happy

/ˈhæpiː/
noun

IPA: /ˈhæpiː/

Say it like: Hap-pee

The correct spelling is happy. A happy event, thing, person, etc. For example: "Music makes me feel happy."

Usage Examples

Music makes me feel happy.

Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?

a happy coincidence

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A happy event, thing, person, etc.
  2. 2.Preceded by the: happy people as a group.

verb

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

adjective

  1. 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. 2.Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
  3. 3.Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
  4. 4.(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
  5. 5.(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.

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