😜 Carefree and reckless 🤪 Dazed and silly

slaphappy

1 8.4

Acting cheerful and not careful about work or duties

adjective
/ˈslæpˌhæpi/

Informal

: alegre

At the party, everyone was feeling slaphappy, dancing and laughing without a care in the world.

Examples

He suddenly felt slaphappy, kind of intoxicated.

Fiction book (1996)
I'm slaphappy.

How Do You Know (2010)
After a long day at work, I felt wonderfully slaphappy and couldn't stop laughing with my friends.
The children ran around the park, slaphappy and full of energy on a sunny afternoon.

Synonyms

carefree

vsslaphappy

37 2.9

Not feeling worried or responsible

is cheerfully irresponsible and more likely to ignore consequences

happy-go-lucky

vsslaphappy

15 6.1

A person who is cheerful and does not worry about future problems

is similarly carefree but stresses impulsive cheer and reckless playfulness

freewheeling

vsslaphappy

Informal

8 6.3

Behaving without strict rules and doing what you want

is more cheerfully irresponsible rather than only unconstrained by rules

devil-may-care

vsslaphappy

Informal

6 8.1

Not caring about danger or the bad results of actions

is cheerfully irresponsible and light-hearted while ignoring likely consequences

ditzy

vsslaphappy

Informal

5 8.2

Silly and a little forgetful in a friendly way

is more actively carefree and ignores consequences rather than merely absentminded

dippy

vsslaphappy

Informal

4 8.2

Being silly and a little strange in a friendly way

is more cheerfully reckless and less just eccentric or unclear

dipsy

vsslaphappy

Informal

1 9.8

Acting silly and playful in a slightly strange but friendly way

is more about cheerfully reckless behavior than mere playful craziness

dappy

vsslaphappy

1 9.9

Feeling silly and cheerful in a light, slightly confused way

is more recklessly carefree and less just silly or scatterbrained

pranky

vsslaphappy

Informal

1 7.7

Shows playful energy and plays small tricks to surprise people

is more about carefree risk taking than intentional joke playing

scampish

vsslaphappy

1 6.3

Acting playful and slightly naughty, often doing small harmless tricks

is more about careless cheerful irresponsibility than deliberate mischief

harum-scarum

vsslaphappy

Archaic

1 9.9

Careless and lively in a way that causes trouble

is more light-hearted and playful rather than purely wild or reckless

Antonyms

serious

∞ 1.4

Calm and focused, not playful or joking

responsible

967 2.4

In charge of someone or something and must take care of it

How Carefree

reckless

221 3.6

slaphappy

Informal

1 8.4

carefree

37 2.9

light-hearted

14 3.5

playful

72 1.6

Surface Forms

slaphappy positive

Morphology

slaphappy = slap + happy (semi-transparent) = slap + happy

The compound is clearly 'slap' + 'happy', but the sense 'carefree and cheerfully irresponsible' is a later, idiomatic extension and not directly inferable from the parts.

Etymology

Slaphappy joins slap ('hit') and happy ('joyful'). A helpful way to remember it is to imagine someone so very silly they act careless and reckless, so slaphappy means being carefree and cheerfully irresponsible.