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For formal writing, fortunate, amenable, and receptive often fit better than casual happy or lucky.",[162,165,168],{"q":163,"a":164},"What is the most formal or academic synonym for happy?","It depends on the sense. For emotion, delighted, pleased, or content are the safest formal choices; for luck or advantage, fortunate is the most academic-sounding option.",{"q":166,"a":167},"What is a stronger word than happy?","For a stronger feeling, use delighted, thrilled, overjoyed, or ecstatic. Ecstatic is the most emphatic of these and sounds the least restrained.",{"q":169,"a":170},"What is a milder word than happy?","Glad, content, and pleased are milder than happy in many contexts. Content especially suggests quiet satisfaction rather than obvious excitement.",1790472036988]