Crossword clues for happier
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-comparativehappy)
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]
Wikipedia
Happier is a social network focused in collecting and sharing happy moments with other users.
Happier is Guster's third single released off the Lost and Gone Forever album. It is also on the live CD and DVD Guster on Ice.
- "Happier" was also featured on the 2000 charity album Live in the X Lounge III.
- On April 2, 2015, Kesha performed "Happier" with the band at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA.
Usage examples of "happier".
Among whom there are cousins who are so poor that one might almost dare to think it would have been the happier for them never to have been plated links upon the Dedlock chain of gold, but to have been made of common iron at first and done base service.
I shall not conceal, as I go on, the weaknesses I could not quite conquer, but they always passed from me soon and the happier frame of mind stayed by me faithfully.
That I felt as if I knew it would have been better and happier for many people if indeed I had never breathed.
A should squint to make B happier in looking straight or that C should carry a wooden leg to make D better satisfied with his flesh and blood in a silk stocking.
And I was so rejoiced to know it and so comforted by the sense of having done right in casting this last idle reservation away that I was ten times happier than I had been before.
Far happier than her Lady, as her Lady has often thought, why does she falter in this manner and look at her with such strange mistrust?
Richard and Ada, and I hope in many happier scenes of life --you ever find anything in me which you can honestly think is better than it used to be, believe that it will have sprung up from to-night and that I shall owe it to you.
I could not say enough in admiration of what was all so beautiful, but one secret doubt arose in my mind when I saw this, I thought, oh, would he be the happier for it!
I did not wish him to forget me--perhaps he might not have done so, without these aids to his memory--but my way was easier than his, and I could have reconciled myself even to that so that he had been the happier for it.
He was happier, he said, in our intended marriage than he could find words to tell me.
He was happier and freer admiring her virtues from a distance than having them ever before his eyes.
Troy nobly kept talking about dinosaurs, even starting to look a little happier as he lectured.
He told them how good they were as they led him toward the boulders, both of the big shepherds doggie-grinning and cavorting as if there could be no happier creatures on earth.
Although Salgado would be happier if that particular point never occurred to either of his present guests.
Howell would have felt far happier in his flagship, but Hearthguard was too heavily traveled to take such a risk.