happy

Other forms of happy

comparative or superlative

happier

comparative or superlative

happiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about happy

What does happy mean?

happy means "enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in happy?

happy has 2 syllables: hap-py. The stress falls on "hap". In IPA it is /ˈhæpi/.

What is another word for happy?

Close synonyms include felicitous, glad, well-chosen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of happy?

The recorded antonyms are unhappy.

Is happy a common word?

happy is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with happy?

2 words rhyme with happy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.