Happiness

Definition

happy /'hæpi/ adj ( -ier, -iest ) ၁။ (က) ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ေသာ။ ဝမ္းသာ ေသာ။ You don't look very happy today. ❍ a happy smile/ face ❍ I won't be happy until I know she's safe. (ခ) ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ခ်မ္းေျမ႕ေသာ။ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a happy day/ marriage/ memory/ ending (to a book, etc) ❍ spend many happy hours walking in the woods. ၂။ ~ ( about/ with sb/sth ) ေက်နပ္အားရေသာ။ I'm not happy with his work this term. ❍ We liked our room, but we weren't very happy about the food in the hotel. ၃။ (in greetings) ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈႏွင့္ျပည့္စံုေသာ။ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ Happy birthday! ❍ Happy Christmas! ၄။ ~ to do sth ( fml ) လိုလိုခ်င္ရိွ[ေသာ]။ ဆႏၵရိွ[ေသာ]။ I am (more than) happy to be of service. ၅။ ကံေကာင္းေသာ။ He is in the happy position of never having to worry about money. ၆။ ဆီေလ်ာ္ေသာ။ လိုက္ဖက္ေသာ။ not a very happy choice of words / combination of colours. ❏ happily adv ၁။ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္စြာ။ ဝမ္းေျမာက္ဝမ္းသာ။ be happily married ❍ children playing happily on the beach. ၂။ ကံအားေလ်ာ္စြာ။ ကံေကာင္းေထာက္မ ၍။ Happily, the damage was only slight. ၃။ ဆီေလ်ာ္စြာ။ အဆင္ ေျပေျပ။ His letter was not very happily worded. ❏ happiness n [U]: ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈ။ စိတ္ခ်မ္းေျမ႕စရာ။ find/ achieve true happiness ❍ Their grandchildren are a constant source of happiness. ❏ a happy event [ IDM ] သားသမီးရျခင္း။ ❏ happy-go-lucky adj ျဖစ္လိုရာျဖစ္ေစ သေဘာထားတတ္ ေသာ။ a happy-go-lucky attitude/ person. Compare SLAP-HAPPY ❏ happy hour n (usu sing ) ( infml ) တစ္ေန႔တာ အတြင္း အရက္ဆိုင္တြင္ အရက္ေဈးေလွ်ာ့ေရာင္းေသာအခ်ိန္။ ❏ happy medium n (usu sing ) အစြန္းမေရာက္ေသာ၊ မွ်တေသာ၊ အလယ္အလတ္လမ္းစဥ္။ be/ provide/ strike a happy medium. ❏ many happy returns (of the day ) [ IDM ] (ေမြးေန႔ရွင္ အား ဆုမြန္ေတာင္းေပးေသာစကား)။ အသက္ ရာေက်ာ္ရွည္ပါေစ။

Examples

1. The children seem very happy at school.
2. Sarah felt happy for the first time in her life.
3. [happy about] : Anna was excited and happy about the baby.
4. [happy doing something] : So you’re happy living in London?
5. [make someone happy] : Money alone will never make you happy.
6. We wish him a very happy retirement.
7. A happy marriage/childhood/life
8. [a happy ending] : I do like a film to have a happy ending!
9. [happy with] : Are you happy with this arrangement?
10. [happy about] : I’m not very happy about the children being out so late.
11. [happy that] : Happy that everything had been finalized
12. we left.
13. [happy to do something] : Her parents were happy to know she’d got a good job.
14. [keep someone happy] : Rising profits is the only news that keeps the bosses happy.
15. [reasonably/perfectly happy] : Most people were perfectly happy with the decision.