happy, adj. 1. delighted, glad, pleased, contented, gratified, satisfied; elated, well-pleased, thrilled, tickled, Inf. tickled pink, pleased as punch, Dial, in hog heaven, Brit. Sl. chuffed; euphoric, on cloud nine, on top of the world, walking or floating on air, starry-eyed.
2. cheen'ul, cheery, full of cheer, gay, sunny, in good or high spirits; blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, buoyant, optimistic, positive, Inf upbeat, beamish; debonair, free and easy, carefree, easygoing, breezy, airy, happy-go-lucky, untroubled; jovial, merry, jocund, jolly, mirthful, hilarious; riant, laughing, smiling, happy as a lark; joyful, joyous, jubilant, rejoicing, gleeful; exultant, in seventh heaven, elated, overjoyed, thrilled, exhilarated.
3. lucky, fortunate, auspicious, favorable; advantageous, beneficial, helpful, convenient, opportune, seasonable, timely; valuable, profitable, gainful, lucrative; prosperous, successful, thriving, flourishing, palmy; fruitful, rewarding, satisfying, gratifying.
4. apt, appropriate, fitting, fit, befitting, seemly, expedient; proper, correct, right, good, essential; relevant, to the point, germane, applicable.
happy-go-lucky, adj. carefree, insouciant, free and easy, easygoing, heedless, untroubled, unconcerned, unworried, Inf. living the life of Riley; nonchalant, casual, indifferent, blas6, devil-may-care; animated, spirited, flushed, buoyant, frisky, skittish; rollicking, playful, gamesome, frolicksome, sportive; jocular, jocose, joking, jesting, waggish; flighty, scatterbrained, unreflecting.
hara-kiri, n. suicide, self-destruction, felo-de-se, Hindu, suttee; disembowelment, evisceration; self-immolation; drinking hemlock, falling on one's sword, bowing out, taking the gas or a powder, taking the long walk; asking for it, asking for punishment, death wish, going up without a safety net.
harangue, n. 1. declamation, stump speech, cice- ronianism; oration, speech, talk, address, recitation; hard sell, Inf. spiel, appeal; bombast, rodomontade, bluster, Sl. big stink, hot air; effusion, expatiation.
2. lecture, sermon, preachment, homily, allocution, exhortation; discourse, prelection, disquisition, dissertation, Rhet. peroration.
3. philippic, diatribe, rant, tirade; screed, vituperation, excoriation, denunciation.
-v. 4. orate, speechify, declaim, hold forth, go on and on, perorate, drone on; expound, expatiate, prelect; spout forth, Inf. bark; take to the hustings, Inf. stump, soapbox, get up on a soapbox; preach, sermonize, lecture, pontificate; rant and rave, hoot and holler; denounce, excoriate, scold.
harass, v. 1. raid, harry, beset, beleaguer, drive or press hard; terrorize, persecute, molest, oppress, afflict, victimize.
2. bother, pester, hector, Sl. bug, Sl. hassle, Sl. drive [s.o.] nuts or crazy or bananas, Sl. drive [s.o.] up the wall; hound, dog, nag, pick on, pick at, be or get on [s.o.'s] back, Inf. give [s.o.] a hard time, Sl. ride, SI. put the heat on; torment, taunt, bedevil, tease, tweak, mock, heckle, Brit, chevy; plague, trouble, fret, worry; bait, provoke, badger.
harbinger, n. 1. herald, forerunner, Archaic, messenger, advance man; precursor, avant-courier, pioneer, Mil. point man, front rider; Cassandra, warner, bearer of tidings; usher, marshal, announcer.
2. omen, sign, portent, augury; signpost, clue, indication, symptom, ground waves, feeling in one's bones, gut feeling; premonition, foreboding, warning light, handwriting on the wall; prediction, prophecy, prognostication, auspice.
harbor, n. 1. port, anchorage, harborage, haven.
2. shelter, refuge, asylum, sanctuary, sanctum, safety zone, port in a storm, Scot. bield.
