English Explanatory Dictionary

happily

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ˈhæp.ɪ.li/ /ˈhæp.ə.li/ En-us-happily.ogg

Word forms

happily more happily happilier most happily happiliest

Etymology

From Middle English happily, happyly, happyliche, happylyche, equivalent to happy + -ly.

Synonyms

blessedly bubblingly chearfully cheerfully cheerily cheerly eudaemonically eupeptically gaily gayly genially gladly happily joyfully joyously lightheartedly merrily mirthfully haply

Antonyms

sadly

Related words

happiness happy gladden

Derived words

happily ever after
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