Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to happy
Participle: happied
Gerund: happying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | happy |
| you | happy |
| he;she;it | happies |
| we | happy |
| you | happy |
| they | happy |
Perfect
| I | have happied |
| you | have happied |
| he;she;it | has happied |
| we | have happied |
| you | have happied |
| they | have happied |
Past
| I | happied |
| you | happied |
| he;she;it | happied |
| we | happied |
| you | happied |
| they | happied |
Pluperfect
| I | had happied |
| you | had happied |
| he;she;it | had happied |
| we | had happied |
| you | had happied |
| they | had happied |
Future
| I | will happy |
| you | will happy |
| he;she;it | will happy |
| we | will happy |
| you | will happy |
| they | will happy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have happied |
| you | will have happied |
| he;she;it | will have happied |
| we | will have happied |
| you | will have happied |
| they | will have happied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | happy |
| you | happy |
| he;she;it | happy |
| we | happy |
| you | happy |
| they | happy |
Perfect
| I | have happied |
| you | have happied |
| he;she;it | have happied |
| we | have happied |
| you | have happied |
| they | have happied |
Imperfect
| I | happied |
| you | happied |
| he;she;it | happied |
| we | happied |
| you | happied |
| they | happied |
Pluperfect
| I | had happied |
| you | had happied |
| he;she;it | had happied |
| we | had happied |
| you | had happied |
| they | had happied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would happy |
| you | would happy |
| he;she;it | would happy |
| we | would happy |
| you | would happy |
| they | would happy |
Perfect
| I | would have happied |
| you | would have happied |
| he;she;it | would have happied |
| we | would have happied |
| you | would have happied |
| they | would have happied |
Imperative
| you | happy |
| we | Let's happy |
| you | happy |
Verbs conjugated like 'happy'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'happy'
nappy,
tappy,
apay,
appay,
apply,
duppy,
halp,
hap,
happen,
happify,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kob-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *hampą
4. Old Norse happbor.
5. Middle English hap
6. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
7. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *-g
9. Old English -iġ
10. Middle English -y
11. Middle English happy
12. English happy
13. From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Faroese heppin (“fortunate, lucky, happy”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
Sample Sentences
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Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to "happy up." [2001, John L. Bullion, “Jokes”, in In the Boat with LBJ, Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 294:]
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[H]e smiled […] then asked my name. He checked it against his clipboard then sadly shook his head as if he'd been rejected himself. Told him I was looking for employment and he happied up again, able to help by directing me to apply at the front office, that the doors were on the Gower Street side. [2016 July 18, Wayne Kaatz, chapter 11, in Stuck on Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN:]
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People really didn't want their Party Motivators in their photos, anonymous dancers, happying up the place. It spooked them. [2007, Mireille Juchau, “Sanctuary”, in Burning In, Artarmon, N.S.W.: Giramondo Publishing for the Writing & Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney, →ISBN, page 201:]
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[…] [William] Glasser would probably say that happy people are "happying" themselves by choosing behaviors that help them to feel happy (working at their relationships, engaging in productive work activities, participating in desired recreational activities, etc.). [2015 October 26, Nickolas Martin, Ego Therapy: A Method for Healing Your Whole Self, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN:]