Sekirov Dictionary

happily

UK /ˈhæp.ɪ.li/US /ˈhæp.ə.li/

adverb 4
forms 4
phrases 1

adverb4

•
in a cheerful way that shows pleasure
- This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach.
•
With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
- I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.
•
By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
- Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also. — 1953
•
(no longer used) By chance; perhaps.
- And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents? — 1603

forms

happilier · more happily · happiliest · most happily

Phrases with happily

happily ever after
A happy period of time which is imagined never to end; specifically, the state of happiness in which one or more people (typically a loving couple) dwell for the rest of his, her, their, etc., lives.

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