Happily

/ˈhæp.ɪ.li/ · adverb

Meaning

In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness..

Definitions by Sense

1. In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
2. By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
3. With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
4. (archaic) By chance; perhaps.

Example Sentences

This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach.

And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.

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.

Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.

I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.

And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?

Synonyms for happily

Antonyms for happily

Related Words

Word Forms

• more happily
• happilier
• most happily
• happiliest

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