# A word for 'happy for someone even though you're also sad'?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-word-for-happy-for-someone-even-though-youre-also-sad/481239>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 14, 2009, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-word-for-happy-for-someone-even-though-youre-also-sad/481239 "2009-01-14T08:36:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-word-for-happy-for-someone-even-though-youre-also-sad/481239/21 "2009-01-15T03:35:15Z")

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> [@Sunspace](#):
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> For example, there was an article about [Deepika Padukone](http://www.thestar.com/Entertainment/article/570539) in today’s Toronto Star, and I was smitten, but I’d have to be a generation younger, rich, and living in India to even get close to her social circles.

Yow. That is all.

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**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-word-for-happy-for-someone-even-though-youre-also-sad/481239/22 "2009-01-15T04:01:24Z")

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> [@AllWalker](#):
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> May I suggest hurpy - a portmanteau of hurt and happy.
> 
> Al: You don’t look so good. You okay?  
> Bob: Fine, I’ve just got a bad case of hurpies.
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> I can see that catching on.

Hee!

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-word-for-happy-for-someone-even-though-youre-also-sad/481239/23 "2009-01-15T04:55:35Z")

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> [@Asimovian](#):
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> Yow. That is all.

I think I might go to a movie this weekend.

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