Happy merupakan Bahasa Inggrisnya “senang” yang sering kita dengar. Penggunaan happy selalu berulang-ulang sampai kadang membuat kata ini terlalu monoton. Padahal, masih banyak persamaan kata happy dengan arti yang sama dalam Bahasa Inggris. Dilansir dari Cambridge Dictionary, definisi dari happy sebenernya tak hanya memiliki arti senang. Namun, bisa menggambarkan kondisi-kondisi berikut:
- Merasakan, menunjukkan, atau menimbulkan perasaan kelegaan dan kepuasan.
- Karakteristik seseorang.
- Adanya faktor eksternal yang membuat perasaan menjadi spontan bahagia.
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Selain “happy“, ternyata ada banyak kosakata untuk menggambarkan perasaan senang atau bahagia. Kosakata ini bisa kamu pakai dalam percakapan maupun secara tulisan agar tidak monoton dan bosan. Persamaan dari kata “happy” antara lain:
- Cheerful
- Contented
- Delighted
- Ecstatic
- Elated
- Glad
- Joyful
- Joyous
- Jubilant
- Lively
- Merry
- Overjoyed
- Peaceful
- Pleasant
- Pleased
- Thrilled
- Upbeat
- Blessed
- Blest
- Blissful
- Blithe
- Captivated
- Chipper
- Chirpy
- On cloud nine
- In a good mood
- Jolly
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Contoh Kalimat
Jika di atas sudah dijelaskan dan disebutkan mengenai bahasa Inggrisnya “senang” serta persamaan katanya, mari aplikasikan ke dalam contoh kalimat di bawah ini:
- I hope you two are happy together.
- I’d be happy knowing you’re safe.
- So Mildred stayed with me in Cambridge, and for six happy months, we were hardly ever apart.
- Are you trying to say that you’re not happy with your success?
- How cheerful it is to hear of!
- The flowers should have made her feel cheerful, but they ushered in that dark feeling instead.
- The scientist hopped up with a cheerful salute.
- In disposition, Clarke was cheerful and even playful.
- The dark starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning.
- She laughed in a delighted way.
- The little girls were delighted to see the lovely shells.
- Everybody was delighted with Helen.
- Dean answered it and was delighted to hear Martha’s voice.
- He knew that she had not sung since her illness, and so the sound of her voice surprised and delighted him.
- Finally, he proposed a plan which delighted us all beyond words.
- We were ecstatic but increasingly nervous.
- Maria’s level of happiness rose to ecstatic when he was around.
- Young Rostov’s ecstatic voice could be heard above the three hundred others.
- He felt ecstatic that she heard in his music what he saw in her art.
- Kiera’s heart still did somersaults, and she felt both doubtful Evelyn would follow through and ecstatic at the prospect.
- None the less, we were elated at the detail he’d gathered.
- He was elated that, in his mind, his earlier identification was affirmed.
- While saddened by Jennie Lohr’s death, we were elated with the capture of her abductor.
- Even this great concession did not satisfy the ambition of the Boers, who were naturally elated by their victories.
- I am glad you asked.
- I’m glad you told Gabriel the truth.
- If you’ll just point the way, I’ll be glad to go by myself.
- They were glad enough to march back without it.
- I’ll be glad to pay you for all you’ve done.
- A flood of brilliant, joyful light poured from her transfigured face.
- Have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful news–if it’s not false.
- Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression.
- I think it is her joyous interest in everything and everybody.
- That word startled my soul, and it awoke, full of the spirit of the morning, full of joyous, exultant song.
- But Mrs. Trudi White, a Hockerton Housing Project resident, said the mood at the development was now jubilant.
- The flight crews returned jubilant that their missions had been successful.
- The teacher has read me his lively stories about his boyhood, and I enjoyed them greatly.
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Setelah membaca penjelasan di atas, pastinya kamu sudah tidak bingung untuk mengganti kata “happy” dalam percakapan atau tulisan? Nah, selain Bahasa Inggrisnya “senang” yang ternyata memiliki banyak kosakata, apa lagi yang perlu kamu tahu? Yuk, segera daftar program WSE GO (Wall Street English Goes Online)!
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