The other word for happy

What is another word for Happy?

• felicitous

  lucky, fortunate

• fortunate

  lucky, characteristic

• merry

  cheerful, contented

• glad

  willing, joyous

• content

  blessed, contented

• lucky

  fortunate, characteristic

• joyful

  contented, character trait

• blissful

  contented, joyous

• contented

  willing, glad

• cheerful

  character trait, contented

• joyous

  character trait, blessed

• pleased

  willing, joyous

• overjoyed

  feeling, exhilarated

• elated

  satisfied, very pleased

• gratified

  satisfied, pleased

• satisfied

  pleased

• appropriate

  property, right

• apt

  lucky, property

• ecstatic

  feeling, blessed

• delighted

  participle, willing

• cheery

  jaunty, joyous

• blithe

  joyful, glad

• fitting

  property, right

• blessed

  joyous, satisfied

• jolly

  satisfied, pleased

• providential

  luck, lucky

• jovial

  character trait, blithe

• sunny

  satisfied, pleased

• bright

  joyful

• successful

  lucky, characteristic

• gay

  character trait, glad

• befitting

  property, right

• jubilant

  pleased

• propitious

  fortunate, characteristic

• prosperous

  characteristic

• opportune

  fortunate, property

• advantageous

  fortunate

• right

  appropriate

• gleeful

  joyful

• pleasant

  jaunty, cheerful

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• adj.

  • Panglossian (adjective)

  • looking through rosecolored glasses,
  • looking the bright side,
  • looking bright side,
  • looking through rose colored glasses.

  • airy (adjective)

  • Light-hearted,
  • lightest,
  • graceful.

  • all (adjective)

  • happy.

  • animate (adjective)

  • most energized,
  • more energized,
  • more activated,
  • most activated.

  • animated (adjective)

  • more vitalized,
  • ex-cited,
  • zingier,
  • ex cited,
  • most zestful,
  • zingiest,
  • quickest,
  • more zestful,
  • quick,
  • more fervent,
  • most vitalized.

  • apt (adjective)

  • re-levant,
  • re levant,
  • pertinent.

  • auspicious (adjective)

  • welltimed.

  • beatific (adjective)

  • most euphoric,
  • more euphoric,
  • euphoric.

  • befitting (adjective)

  • de-cent,
  • more behooving,
  • more beseeming,
  • be-fitting,
  • be seeming,
  • be-coming,
  • most behooving,
  • most beseeming,
  • de cent,
  • what doctor ordered,
  • on nose,
  • on button,
  • be-seeming.

  • buoyant (adjective)

  • most invigorated,
  • more invigorated,
  • full zip.

  • carefree (adjective)

  • easy-going,
  • easy going,
  • at ease.

  • chance (adjective)

  • unlooked for,
  • at random,
  • offhand.

  • cheerful (adjective)

  • spirited,
  • happy-go-lucky,
  • complaisant,
  • joyful,
  • jaunty,
  • amiable,
  • genial,
  • cheery,
  • good-humored,
  • friendly,
  • pleasant,
  • cheerful,
  • affable,
  • merry,
  • agreeable,
  • gay,
  • sparkling,
  • easygoing,
  • glad,
  • bright,
  • sunny.

  • comfortable (adjective)

  • at rest,
  • heartiest,
  • snug as bug in rug,
  • Soothed,
  • cared for,
  • snug as a bug in a rug,
  • healthy,
  • loose-fitting,
  • hale,
  • softer,
  • made well.

  • complacent (adjective)

  • most self-contented,
  • un concerned,
  • more self-contented,
  • more self pleased,
  • self righteous,
  • most self contented,
  • more self-pleased,
  • most self-pleased,
  • selfsatisfied,
  • self contented,
  • selfcontented,
  • most self pleased,
  • selfassured,
  • self pleased,
  • most selfpleased,
  • self satisfied,
  • most selfcontented,
  • selfpleased,
  • self possessed,
  • selfpossessed,
  • more selfpleased,
  • selfrighteous,
  • un-concerned,
  • self assured,
  • more selfcontented,
  • more self contented.

  • congenial (adjective)

  • most wellsuited,
  • more well-suited,
  • like minded,
  • most amical,
  • more wellsuited,
  • clubbiest,
  • more consistent,
  • goodhumored,
  • more well suited,
  • more amical,
  • most well suited,
  • good humored,
  • social,
  • most conversable,
  • clubbier,
  • wellsuited,
  • most well-suited,
  • likeminded,
  • more conversable,
  • co operative,
  • well suited.

  • content (adjective)

  • satisfied.

  • convivial (adjective)

  • most glad-handering,
  • more conversible,
  • most gladhandering,
  • back slapping,
  • most backslapping,
  • most glad handering,
  • most back slapping,
  • more back-slapping,
  • most conversible,
  • more backslapping,
  • most festal,
  • festal,
  • more festal,
  • more back slapping,
  • more glad-handering,
  • more gladhandering,
  • more glad handering,
  • gladhandering,
  • most back-slapping,
  • more holiday,
  • most holiday,
  • glad handering.

  • cordial (adjective)

  • palsy walsy,
  • more heart-to-heart,
  • palsywalsy,
  • buddybuddy,
  • most heart-to-heart,
  • most redcarpet,
  • most buddybuddy,
  • more buddybuddy,
  • most red carpet,
  • more heart to heart,
  • most red-carpet,
  • buddy buddy,
  • more red carpet,
  • more buddy-buddy,
  • more redcarpet,
  • most buddy buddy,
  • more red-carpet,
  • more buddy buddy,
  • most heart to heart,
  • most buddy-buddy,
  • redcarpet,
  • heart to heart.

  • debonair (adjective)

  • urbane,
  • well-bred.

  • easygoing, laid back (adjective)

  • nonchalant.

  • effervescent (adjective)

  • irrepressible.

  • entertained (adjective)

  • more cheered,
  • most cheered.

  • favorable (adjective)

  • re assuring,
  • more toward,
  • more reassuring,
  • re-assuring,
  • most reassuring,
  • most toward,
  • most pleasureful,
  • more pleasureful,
  • full of promise,
  • full promise.

  • felicitous (adjective)

  • most wellchosen,
  • more well chosen,
  • more telling,
  • most well chosen,
  • in-spired,
  • most telling,
  • in spired,
  • inspired,
  • wellchosen,
  • more well-chosen,
  • most well-chosen,
  • more wellchosen.

  • festive (adjective)

  • GOGO,
  • most go-go,
  • swinging,
  • most gogo,
  • juiced up,
  • more rocking,
  • perky,
  • Rocking,
  • more go go,
  • more grooving,
  • more carnivalesque,
  • most carnival,
  • more go-go,
  • most rocking,
  • go go,
  • most carnivalesque,
  • more carnival,
  • more gogo,
  • most grooving,
  • most go go.

  • fit (adjective)

  • pre pared,
  • de-serving,
  • most desirable,
  • most correspondent,
  • more correspondent,
  • rightful,
  • pre-pared,
  • de serving.

  • fitting (adjective)

  • thats ticket,
  • thats the ticket,
  • more fitting,
  • that’s ticket,
  • that the ticket,
  • that ticket.

  • fortuitous (adjective)

  • most luckydog,
  • more lucky dog,
  • luckydog,
  • most lucky dog,
  • lucky dog,
  • more serendipitous,
  • flukest,
  • fluker,
  • most serendipitous,
  • more lucky-dog,
  • most lucky-dog,
  • more luckydog.

  • fortunate (adjective)

  • sunny side,
  • in the gravy,
  • more fortunate,
  • in luck,
  • born with a silver spoon,
  • get a break.

  • frolicsome (adjective)

  • most gamesome,
  • Gamesome,
  • sportive,
  • most antic,
  • mischievous,
  • more gamesome,
  • kittenish,
  • impish,
  • most sportive,
  • more antic,
  • most coltish,
  • more coltish.

  • golden (adjective)

  • re-splendent.

  • gratified (adjective)

  • most obtained,
  • most consummated,
  • more compassed,
  • more consummated,
  • more concluded,
  • most actualized,
  • more obtained,
  • most compassed,
  • most concluded,
  • most attained,
  • perfest,
  • more effectuated,
  • most effected,
  • brought close,
  • brought a close,
  • dis-patched,
  • most achieved,
  • perfer,
  • most effectuated,
  • made good,
  • more achieved,
  • most dispatched,
  • more effected,
  • dis patched,
  • more attained,
  • brought to close,
  • more actualized,
  • more dispatched.

  • halcyon (adjective)

  • palmier.

  • hilarious (adjective)

  • more gut busting,
  • most side-splitting,
  • riotest,
  • gut busting,
  • more side splitting,
  • side splitting,
  • side-splitting,
  • most side splitting,
  • gutbusting,
  • hilarious,
  • laughable,
  • more gut-busting,
  • most gutbusting,
  • more gutbusting,
  • more side-splitting,
  • most gut-busting,
  • screamest,
  • most gut busting,
  • witty.

  • hopeful (adjective)

  • promising.

  • important (adjective)

  • Red-letter.

  • in high spirits; satisfied (adjective)

  • on cloud nine,
  • flying high,
  • delighted,
  • captivated,
  • tickled pink,
  • light,
  • peaceful,
  • up,
  • blithe,
  • walking on air,
  • jubilant,
  • ecstatic,
  • gleeful,
  • blest,
  • peppy.

  • jocular (adjective)

  • more boffo,
  • most boffo.

  • jocular/jocose/jocund (adjective)

  • more joshing,
  • jokiest,
  • most joshing,
  • jokier,
  • most jocose,
  • most jocund,
  • teasing,
  • most comic,
  • facetious,
  • more jesting,
  • most jesting.

  • jolly (adjective)

  • most larking,
  • more gladsome,
  • lots laughs,
  • most gladsome,
  • more larking.

  • just (adjective)

  • condign,
  • well-deserved.

  • lighthearted (adjective)

  • most lightsome,
  • laidback,
  • lightsome,
  • more lightsome.

  • lively (adjective)

  • hyper,
  • animated,
  • animate,
  • full of pep.

  • mirthful (adjective)

  • fun-loving.

  • nonchalant (adjective)

  • un-impressible,
  • un emotional,
  • un flappable,
  • un-perturbed,
  • un-emotional,
  • un caring,
  • dis-passionate,
  • more unexcited,
  • dis impassioned,
  • most unimpressible,
  • dis-impassioned,
  • dis interested,
  • more disimpassioned,
  • un feeling,
  • in curious,
  • un-ruffled,
  • most unexcited,
  • in-different,
  • more unimpressible,
  • un-caring,
  • effortless,
  • un ruffled,
  • in different,
  • un-excited,
  • un excited,
  • dis passionate,
  • un impressible,
  • dis-interested,
  • un perturbed,
  • in-curious,
  • most disimpassioned.

  • opportune (adjective)

  • most timeous,
  • more timeous,
  • Timeous.

  • optimistic (adjective)

  • ray sunshine,
  • on top world,
  • keeping faith,
  • ray of sunshine.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • lighthearted,
  • congenial,
  • chirpy,
  • on top,
  • blithesome,
  • buddy-buddy,
  • lucky,
  • fitting,
  • boffo,
  • lucky-dog,
  • self-pleased,
  • lively,
  • complacent,
  • at peace,
  • airy,
  • ready,
  • enchanted,
  • campy,
  • grooving,
  • fortunate,
  • gagged up,
  • festive,
  • effervescent,
  • frolicsome,
  • jolly,
  • gratified,
  • getting a break,
  • gut-busting,
  • well-suited,
  • co-operative,
  • be fitting,
  • pleasureful,
  • full of zip,
  • riproaring,
  • jocular,
  • floating on air,
  • jokey,
  • warm,
  • good enough,
  • in the lead,
  • mirthful,
  • having fun,
  • entertained,
  • zingy,
  • clubby,
  • well,
  • befitting,
  • palmy,
  • coming up roses,
  • cordial,
  • looking through rose-colored glasses,
  • self-contented,
  • unexcited,
  • psyched up,
  • enjoying oneself,
  • just what was ordered,
  • well-chosen,
  • luck out,
  • golden,
  • on top of world,
  • felicitous,
  • back-slapping,
  • holding aces,
  • fortuitous,
  • prizewinning,
  • can’t complain,
  • zesty,
  • amical,
  • debonair,
  • Conversible,
  • Larking,
  • campiest,
  • be coming,
  • heart-to-heart,
  • buoyant,
  • looking on the bright side,
  • luck in,
  • gala,
  • backslapping,
  • red-carpet,
  • rioter,
  • for grins,
  • fit,
  • gladsome,
  • glad-handering,
  • chirpier,
  • palmiest,
  • in the groove,
  • out front,
  • rose-colored,
  • vivacious,
  • serendipitous,
  • Disimpassioned,
  • regular fellow,
  • pat,
  • convivial,
  • keeping the faith,
  • screamer,
  • chirpiest,
  • carnivalesque,
  • Conversable,
  • pleased,
  • Tickled,
  • hit it big,
  • that’s the ticket,
  • opportune,
  • into something,
  • Beseeming,
  • PERF,
  • zestful,
  • prosperous,
  • dexter,
  • halcyon,
  • lots of laughs,
  • right neighborly,
  • well chosen,
  • laid back,
  • campier,
  • looking good,
  • tickled to death,
  • celebratory,
  • looking on bright side,
  • comfortable,
  • successful,
  • all systems go,
  • coltish,
  • willing,
  • go-go,
  • in high spirits,
  • favorable,
  • auspicious,
  • just,
  • well timed,
  • optimistic,
  • rapt,
  • carried away,
  • propitious,
  • suitable,
  • on the button,
  • rollicking,
  • beatific,
  • Unimpressible,
  • what the doctor ordered,
  • brought to a close,
  • carefree.

  • pat (adjective)

  • to the point,
  • the point.

  • pleasant (adjective)

  • pleasurable,
  • exhilarating,
  • delightful,
  • likeable.

  • pleased (adjective)

  • most pleased.

  • promising (adjective)

  • up-and-coming.

  • propitious (adjective)

  • most favoring,
  • more favoring,
  • more dexter,
  • most dexter.

  • rapt (adjective)

  • trans ported,
  • most captivated,
  • most enthralled,
  • un conscious,
  • over-whelmed,
  • most beguiled,
  • de-lighted,
  • more enraptured,
  • pre-occupied,
  • more ravished,
  • caught in,
  • be witched,
  • more daydreaming,
  • most enraptured,
  • in tent,
  • un-conscious,
  • more gripped,
  • more captivated,
  • more enthralled,
  • over whelmed,
  • wrapped up,
  • most ravished,
  • in-attentive,
  • pre occupied,
  • most daydreaming,
  • be-witched,
  • most entranced,
  • de lighted,
  • most gripped,
  • more beguiled,
  • more entranced.

  • rapturous (adjective)

  • rapturous.

  • ready (adjective)

  • pro-nest,
  • pre-disposed,
  • fain,
  • game for,
  • dis posed,
  • dis-posed.

  • red-letter (adjective)

  • red letter,
  • redletter.

  • rollicking (adjective)

  • more riproaring,
  • more romping,
  • most cavorting,
  • more cavorting,
  • rip-roaring,
  • devil may care,
  • most rip roaring,
  • most rip-roaring,
  • more rip-roaring,
  • most romping,
  • rip roaring,
  • most riproaring,
  • more rip roaring.

  • rose-colored (adjective)

  • rose colored,
  • rosecolored.

  • satisfied (adjective)

  • sated,
  • satiated.

  • successful (adjective)

  • on track,
  • at top of ladder,
  • bestselling,
  • triumphant,
  • extra ordinary,
  • out-standing,
  • at the top,
  • ahead of the game,
  • out in front.

  • suitable (adjective)

  • user friendly,
  • copacetic,
  • in character,
  • up to snuff,
  • more suitable,
  • apt,
  • in keeping.

  • sullen (adjective)

  • grim.

  • tickled (adjective)

  • pleased as punch,
  • more up,
  • over-joyed,
  • over joyed,
  • most up,
  • cant complain,
  • tickled death,
  • floating air.

  • tipsy (adjective)

  • tipsy,
  • fuddled.

  • triumphant (adjective)

  • most prizewinning,
  • more prizewinning,
  • triumphal,
  • most celebratory,
  • more swaggering,
  • in lead,
  • most swaggering,
  • more celebratory.

  • upbeat (adjective)

  • up-beat,
  • up beat.

  • vivacious (adjective)

  • zestiest,
  • full life,
  • full of life,
  • zestier.

  • willing (adjective)

  • in the mood,
  • witting,
  • go along with,
  • in favor,
  • unbidden,
  • well-disposed,
  • in accord with.

• n.

  •
  • shouting,
  • joking,
  • cheering,
  • amusing,
  • roaring,
  • weeping,
  • jesting,
  • alive,
  • crying.
  •
  • happy birthday,
  • season’s greetings,
  • luck,
  • Merry Christmas,
  • providential,
  • many happy returns.
  •
  • uplift.
  •
  • fulfilled.
  •
  • pleasing.
  •
  • tailor-made,
  • becoming,
  • appropriate,
  • proper,
  • correct.

  • blissful (noun)

  • blissful.

  • contented (noun)

  • contented.

  • drunk (noun)

  • drunk.

  • drunken (noun)

  • drunken.

  • elysian (noun)

  • elysian.

  • euphoriant (noun)

  • euphoriant.

  • expansive (noun)

  • expansive.

  • happy (noun)

  • paradisial,
  • paradisaical,
  • paradisaic,
  • riant,
  • paradisiac,
  • paradisiacal,
  • paradisal,
  • laughing,
  • blessed,
  • joyous.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disgruntlement,
  • solemn,
  • perturbing,
  • glumness,
  • grumbler,
  • teary,
  • Exultancy,
  • delectation,
  • Grouser,
  • afflicted,
  • doldrums,
  • upbeat,
  • whiner,
  • Overjoy,
  • dysphoria,
  • intoxicated,
  • heartbreak,
  • gladly,
  • mournfulness,
  • deject,
  • growler,
  • disgruntle,
  • upsetting,
  • tenebrific,
  • jubilance,
  • Griper,
  • seventh heaven,
  • mutterer,
  • discontentment,
  • seraphic,
  • disruptive,
  • enraptured,
  • unsettling,
  • complainer,
  • bellyacher,
  • troublous,
  • grouse,
  • grump,
  • dolefulness,
  • distressful,
  • cloud nine,
  • worrisome,
  • distressing,
  • Exultance,
  • jubilate,
  • terrible,
  • worrying,
  • downheartedness,
  • Sorehead,
  • Flattered,
  • heavy-heartedness,
  • dispiriting.
  •
  • wound,
  • depression,
  • cry,
  • glory.
  •
  • weigh,
  • pain,
  • beef,
  • lonely,
  • exalt,
  • flush.
  •
  • lift,
  • elevated,
  • elevate,
  • heaven.
  •
  • hurt.
  •
  • right.
  •
  • letdown.
  •
  • high.

  • affecting

  • pitiful.

  • animated

  • thrilled.

  • carefree

  • careless.

  • convivial

  • jovial.

  • cordial

  • hearty.

  • encouraging

  • hopeful.

  • enraptured

  • overjoyed.

  • exhilarated

  • elated.

  • exulting

  • exultant.

  • frolicsome

  • playful.

  • high-spirited

  • exuberant.

  • high spirits

  • Elatedness,
  • euphoria,
  • animation,
  • inspiration,
  • exaltation.

  • in good spirits

  • chipper.

  • Other relevant words:

  • gasser,
  • passion,
  • amusement,
  • High Jinks,
  • wheel,
  • Ardency,
  • enthusiasm,
  • frisk,
  • content,
  • contenting,
  • jamboree,
  • frolic,
  • high old time,
  • gratifying,
  • bliss,
  • jag,
  • fulfillment,
  • catering,
  • chance,
  • jinks,
  • meet,
  • bluebird,
  • eudaemonia,
  • festivity,
  • cheer,
  • mercy,
  • appeasement,
  • joyance,
  • gaiety,
  • soul,
  • blissfulness,
  • rejoicing,
  • accomplishment,
  • eagerness,
  • repletion,
  • elation,
  • warmth,
  • shindig,
  • compliance,
  • steam,
  • glee,
  • ardor,
  • sunshine,
  • blessedness,
  • contentment,
  • splore,
  • hoopla,
  • jocundity,
  • merriment,
  • hilarity,
  • good fortune,
  • relief,
  • pathos,
  • fling,
  • Cess,
  • revel,
  • Luckiness,
  • redress,
  • gusto,
  • recovery,
  • felicity,
  • elan,
  • bum,
  • Sufficing,
  • excitement,
  • zing,
  • lark,
  • sunniness,
  • toot,
  • gambol,
  • jollity,
  • comfort,
  • fun,
  • enjoyment,
  • team spirit,
  • extravaganza,
  • satisfaction,
  • rattle,
  • pep,
  • gig,
  • mirth,
  • amusements,
  • merry-making,
  • zest,
  • brannigan,
  • will,
  • satisfying,
  • ebullience,
  • merrymaking,
  • ardour,
  • gratification,
  • fortune’s wheel,
  • joss,
  • Tittup,
  • complacency,
  • approval,
  • spree,
  • zeal,
  • restitution,
  • joyfulness,
  • fun and games,
  • kick,
  • exhilaration,
  • shindy,
  • blast,
  • fulfilment,
  • rejoicings,
  • wing-ding,
  • bowl,
  • Gayety,
  • vivacity,
  • cakes and ale.

  • rapturous

  • exalted.

  • shining

  • radiant.

How to use «Happy» in context?

Paraphrases for Happy:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    contented, felicitous, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased.
  • Proper noun, singular
    merry, pleased.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    joyful, merry.
  • Verb, past tense
    merry.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    unhappy.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    beautiful, displeased, encouraged, enthusiastic, favourable, keen, positive, prepared, pretty, prosperous, willing, gay.
  • Proper noun, singular
    GS, Kicks.
  • Noun, plural
    bonds.
  • Verb, past tense
    appreciated, delighted, excited, welcomed, Did, Enjoyed.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    dancing, rowing, smiling, Enjoying, Having.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    Does, encourages, includes.
  • Verb, base form
    appreciate.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    agreeable, appreciative, auspicious, cheery, comfortable, complacent, delighted, delightful, dissatisfied, ecstatic, enjoyable, excited, exciting, fortunate, grateful, gratified, gratifying, happiness, jolly, joy, pleasurable, ready, satisfactory, satisfied, satisfying, successful, thankful, welcome, wonderful, psyched.
  • Proper noun, singular
    happiness, Cries.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    happiness, joy.
  • Verb, past tense
    pleased, satisfied.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    gratifying, merry, satisfying.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    merry, welcomes.
  • Verb, base form
    merry, welcome.