happily
adv/ˈhæp.ɪ.li/UK/ˈhæp.ə.li/US
Etymology
From Middle English happily, happyly, happyliche, happylyche, equivalent to happy + -ly.
- inherited from happily
Definitions
In a happy or cheerful manner
In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
- This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach.
- Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive.
By good chance
By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
- Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.
With good will
With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
- I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.
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By chance
By chance; perhaps.
- And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?
The neighborhood
- synonymblessedly
- synonymbubblingly
- synonymchearfully
- synonymcheerfully
- synonymcheerily
- synonymcheerly
- synonymeudaemonically
- synonymeupeptically
- synonymgaily
- synonymgayly
- synonymgenially
- synonymgladly
- antonymsadly
- neighborhappiness
- neighborhappy
- neighborgladden
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for happily. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA