Adjective

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Experiencing the effect of favourable 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.

* 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , 144, xv,

Happy' is that people, that is in such a case: yea, ' happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

* 1777 , (Alexander Pope), An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Argument of Epistle II'', in ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq , Volume III, page 26,

The learn'd is happy' nature to explore, / The fool is ' happy that he knows no more ;

Music makes me feel happy .

Favored by luck or fortune; lucky.

* 1661 , (Robert Boyle), (The Sceptical Chymist) , 2006, Elibron Classics (imprint), page 227,

I may presume that what I have hitherto discoursed will induce you to think, that chymists have been much more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them; or in assigning the principles by which they may best be explained.

Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

* 1761 , (Jonathan Swift), A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation'': Introduction, in ''The works of Dr Jonathan Swift , Volume VII, page 246,

For instance, one lady can give an an?wer better than a?k a que?tion : one gentleman is happy at a reply ; another excels in a rejoinder : one can revive a langui?hing conver?ation by a ?udden ?urpri?ing ?entence ;.

Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).

Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?

Are you happy with your internet service provider?

(As a suffix to a noun) favouring or inclined to use, as in trigger-happy.

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Adjective

(wikipedia certain) (en adjective)

Sure, positive, not doubting.

I was certain of my decision.

(obsolete) Determined; resolved.

* Milton

However, I with thee have fixed my lot, / Certain to undergo like doom.

Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.

* Bible, Dan. ii. 45

The dream is certain , and the interpretation thereof sure.

Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.

Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.

* Dryden

Virtue that directs our ways / Through certain dangers to uncertain praise.

* Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.

Unfailing; infallible.

* Mead

I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper.

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.

* Bible, Ex. xvi. 4

The people go out and gather a certain rate every day.

Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons.

* Bible, Luke v. 12

It came to pass when he was in a certain city.

* Macaulay

About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace and decorum.