Crossword clues for happiest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Happy \Hap"py\ (h[a^]p"p[y^]), a. [Compar. Happier (-p[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Happiest.] [From Hap chance.]
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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.
Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.
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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.
Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
--Ps. cxliv. 15.The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more.
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Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder.
--Swift.Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant.
Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. ``Happy-go-lucky carelessness.''
--W. Black.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativehappy)
WordNet
See happy
adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage" [ant: unhappy]
experiencing pleasure or joy; "happy you are here"; "pleased with the good news" [syn: pleased]
marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome" [syn: felicitous]
satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment; "felt content with her lot"; "quite happy to let things go on as they are"
exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation [syn: euphoric] [ant: dysphoric]
well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words"; "a felicitous comment" [syn: well-chosen]
Usage examples of "happiest".
Caroline and George in their London palace so that they must send to Walpole to soothe them--that boy Charles Edward, whose happiest moment, maybe, is just this when, from that little close-walled flowered garden, he looks across, a fire of ambition at his heart, to a thin line of smoky plum-coloured hills.
Those seemed to be the times when she was happiest, when she was carrying plates, sweeping floors, polishing the brass and silver.
She was always cheerful, and when he was there seemed the happiest woman in the country.
Although this was the happiest day of her life, she was well aware that the happiest part of it would come this evening with the ball.
And somewhere elsein her heart, in her headshe felt the almost overwhelming exhilaration of knowing that now it had truly begun, this happiest evening of her life.
She would not allow him to spoil what remained of this happiest night of her life.
Two weeks ago she had thought her birthday the happiest day of her lifeand so it had been.
Thought had returned at the final moment and with it the knowledge that this was the happiest moment in the happiest day she would ever know.
Well, at that very moment I was thinking that your wife would be the happiest woman in Venice.
How could I be angry with you, my love, in the happiest moment of my life?
I am convinced that the two months we passed there were the happiest which he had ever known: his health even rapidly improved, and he was never better than when I last saw him, full of spirits and joy, embark for Leghorn, that he might there welcome Leigh Hunt to Italy.
So, with my thoughts full of these happy changes, We meet again, the happiest change of all.
I would give The longest and the happiest day that fate Has marked on my existence but to feel ONE soul-reviving kiss.
Dennis at his happiest and most relaxed, where he in turn will make me as happy and relaxed as I can be under the circumstances.
Miss Western, I shall always think it the happiest accident of my life.