😜 Carefree and reckless 🤪 Dazed and silly

slaphappy

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

41 2.9

Not feeling worried or responsible

is cheerfully irresponsible and more likely to ignore consequences

happy-go-lucky

vsslaphappy

12 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

6 6.3

Behaving without strict rules and doing what you want

is more cheerfully irresponsible rather than only unconstrained by rules

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

5 8.2

Being silly and a little strange in a friendly way

is more cheerfully reckless and less just eccentric or unclear

devil-may-care

vsslaphappy

Informal

4 8.1

Not caring about danger or the bad results of actions

is cheerfully irresponsible and light-hearted while ignoring likely consequences

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

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

harum-scarum

vsslaphappy

Archaic

9.9

Careless and lively in a way that causes trouble

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

scampish

vsslaphappy

6.3

Acting playful and slightly naughty, often doing small harmless tricks

is more about careless cheerful irresponsibility than deliberate mischief

dipsy

vsslaphappy

Informal

9.8

Acting silly and playful in a slightly strange but friendly way

is more about cheerfully reckless behavior than mere playful craziness

Antonyms

responsible

973 2.4

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

serious

452 1.4

Calm and focused, not playful or joking

How Carefree

reckless

193 3.6

slaphappy

Informal

8.4

carefree

41 2.9

light-hearted

11 3.5

playful

79 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.