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Definition: Make Happy |
Make HappyVerb1. Celebrate noisily; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Make HappySynonyms: make merry (v), make whoopie (v), racket (v), revel (v), wassail (v), whoop it up (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Make Happy |
| English words defined with "make happy": Fe-licify, Fortunize ♦ gladden, gratify ♦ Imparadise ♦ joy ♦ satisfy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "make happy": AI koan, Alone ♦ Funeral ♦ Happy the People whose Annals are Tiresome ♦ Loadstone ♦ Only ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Shoulder, Some AI Koans ♦ tortoise. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "make happy": Fortunize. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
 | Purr; meow; content; rumble; appease; bewitch; captivate; charm; delight; enrapture; gladden; gratify; humor; indulge; make happy; mollify; placate; reconcile; satisfy; suffice; thrill; tickle; please; feline. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Steele | To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "make happy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bëj i lumtur. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ощастливявам. (various references) | |
Chinese | 使高興 (gratify, please, rejoice). (various references) | |
Finnish | onnellistaa (bless). (various references) | |
French | rendre heureux. (various references) | |
German | beglücken. (various references) | |
Hungarian | boldoggá tesz (beatify, make glad, to beatify, to felicitate). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggembirakan (cheer up, enliven, gladden), menggemarkan (give pleasure to), membahagiakan (bring happiness). (various references) | |
Italian | far felice. (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo gennal, cur gennallys er. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akemay appyhay.(various references) | |
Russian | осчастливить (overjoy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | usrećiti. (various references) | |
Swedish | glädja (be glad, delight, give pleasure, gladden, please, rejoice, tickle). (various references) | |
Turkish | mutlu etmek (make one's day), memnun etmek (charm, comfort, content, gladden, gratify, humor, humour, indulge, oblige, please, rejoice, satisfy, suit), sevindirmek (delight, do smb. a pleasure, elate, gladden, gratify, hearten, light up, make one's day, rejoice). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | beata, beatae, beatam, beati, beatificabat, beatificabunt, beatificamus, beatificant, beatificantur, beatificare, beatificat, beatificati, beatificavit, beato, beatos, beatum, beatus, beer, beor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-k-m-p-p-y" | |
-3 letters: mayhap, pakeha. | |
-4 letters: apeak, happy, hempy, kappa, pampa, peaky. | |
-5 letters: ahem, amah, ayah, epha, haem, hake, hame, heap, hemp, hype, kame, kapa, kaph, kemp, make, maya, papa, peak, yeah. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6B 65 48 61 70 70 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a k e   H a p p y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006B 0065 0048 0061 0070 0070 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767777124267828291 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Sounds | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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