mercifully

adv
/ˈmɜː.sɪf.(ə.)li/UK/ˈmɝ.sɪf.(ə.)li/US

Etymology

From merciful + -ly.

  1. inherited from merciful
  2. suffixed as mercifully — “merciful + ly

Definitions

  1. In a merciful manner.

  2. Thankfully.

    • The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.

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No curated loop yet for mercifully. 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