![]() On the other: Poverty, Idleness, Disgrace. On the one hand: Honesty, Bravery, Success. There are good patches, and bad, in roughly equal number. “The game represents, as indicated by the name, the checkered journey of life,” Bradley explained, in his Rules of the Game. Play starts at the board’s lower-left corner, on an ivory square labelled Infancy-illustrated by a tiny, black-inked lithograph of a wicker cradle-and ends, usually but not always, at Happy Old Age, at the upper right, though landing on Suicide, with a noose around your neck, is more common than you might think, and means, inconveniently, that you’re dead. In 1860, the year Abraham Lincoln was elected President, a lanky, long-nosed, twenty-three-year-old Yankee named Milton Bradley invented his first board game, on a red-and-ivory checkerboard of sixty-four squares. Illustration by Zohar Lazar, photograph courtesy Connecticut Valley Historical Museum. Joyful or blissful? Joy is a livelier feeling bliss is more peaceful.Bradley avowed that his game would promote virtue. joyful ( rather formal) very happy making people very happy blissful making people very happy showing this happiness: People or animals can be contented but only people can be content. I’m perfectly content just to lie in the sun.Ĭontented happy and comfortable with what you have showing this:Ĭontent or contented? Being contented depends more on having a comfortable life being content can depend more on your attitude to your life: you can learn to be content with something by changing your attitude to it.She’s never satisfied with what she’s got.Ĭontent happy and satisfied with what you have:.Satisfied pleased because you have achieved something or because something has happened as you wanted it to showing this: happy feeling, showing or giving pleasure satisfied with something or not worried about it: Synonyms happy happy satisfied ▪ content ▪ contented ▪ joyful ▪ blissful These words all describe feeling, showing or giving pleasure. very glad/happy/pleased/proud/relieved.glad/happy/pleased/delighted/proud/relieved/thrilled that…/to see/hear/find/know….glad/happy/pleased/delighted/thrilled for somebody.pleased/delighted/relieved/thrilled at something.glad/happy/pleased/delighted/relieved/thrilled about something.Thrilled can be made negative and ironic with not exactly or less than: She was not exactly thrilled at the prospect of looking after her niece. Thrilled ( rather informal) extremely pleased and excited about something:ĭelighted or thrilled? Thrilled may express a stronger feeling than delighted, but delighted can be made stronger with absolutely, more than or only too. You’ll be relieved to know your jobs are safe.Relieved feeling happy because something unpleasant has stopped or has not happened showing this: He was proud of himself for not giving up.delighted very pleased about something very happy to do something showing your delight:ĭelighted is often used to accept an invitation: ‘Can you stay for dinner?’ ‘I’d be delighted (to).’ proud pleased and satisfied about something that you own or have done, or are connected with: Happy can mean glad, pleased or satisfied. You cannot be ‘glad with somebody’: The boss should be glad with you. Feeling glad can be more about feeling grateful for something. Glad, happy or pleased? Feeling pleased can suggest that you have judged somebody/something and approve of them. She was very pleased with her exam results.Pleased happy about something that has happened or something that you have to do: We are happy to announce the engagement of our daughter. ![]() Happy pleased about something nice that you have to do or something that has happened to somebody:
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