happiest Definition

happy
adj happier, happiest

1. Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.

Example: a happy smile
Thesaurus: gay, delighted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, elated, ecstatic, contented; Antonym: sad, melancholy.
2. Causing pleasure.

Example: a happy day for the company
3. Suitable; fortunate.

Example: a happy coincidence
Thesaurus: apt, appropriate, fit, propitious; seasonable, timely.
4. Suitably expressed; appropriate.

Example: a happy reply
5. colloq
Slightly drunk.
6. Overcome with the thing specified, usually implying irresponsibility.

Example: power-happy
Example: bomb-happy

Derivative: happiness
noun

The feeling or state of being pleased or contented
Thesaurus: bliss, contentment, delight, joy, elation, exuberance, jubilation, gaiety, pleasure, satisfaction; Antonym: depression, melancholy, dejection.

Idiom: happy as Larry

colloq
Completely happy.

Etymology: 14c: from hap.