Happily

Quick meaning: Happily is an adverb meaning In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.

Meaning

In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.

More Meanings

1. By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
2. With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
3. (archaic) By chance; perhaps.

Example Sentences

I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.

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

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

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

Word Forms

• happilier
• happiliest

Synonyms for happily

Depending on context, synonyms include blessedly, bubblingly, chearfully, cheerfully, cheerily, cheerly.

Antonyms for happily

Common opposites include sadly, unhappily.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include merrily, gayly, jubilantly, mirthfully, blithely, cheerfully.

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