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cheerily

/ˈtʃiːɹɪli/

cheerily adverb: in a cheerful manner; with a cheery demeanour.

Adverb

cheerily (comparative more cheerily, superlative most cheerily)

  1. In a cheerful manner; with a cheery demeanour.
    • Having already dismissed the story as a heap of piffle, he cheerily advised the reporters to go for a run.
    • Matters stood thus in the Castle of Avenel, when a winded bugle sent its shrill and prolonged notes from the shore of the lake, and was replied to cheerily by the signal of the warder.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...

cheerily meaning in Bengali

cheerily in Bengali

প্রফুল্লভাবে, হাসিখুশি আচরণে

Synonyms of cheerily

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All synonyms of cheerily

Forms of cheerily

comparativemore cheerily
superlativemost cheerily

Origin of cheerily

From cheery + -ly.

Questions about cheerily

What does cheerily mean?
Cheerily means in a cheerful manner; with a cheery demeanour.
What is cheerily in Bengali?
Cheerily in Bengali is প্রফুল্লভাবে, হাসিখুশি আচরণে. See Cheerily meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is cheerily?
Cheerily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce cheerily?
Cheerily is pronounced /ˈtʃiːɹɪli/.

Words near cheerily in the dictionary

  1. cheerfulnesses
  2. cheerfulsome
  3. cheerie-bye
  4. cheerier
  5. cheeriest
  6. cheerily
  7. cheerin'
  8. cheeriness
  9. cheerinesses
  10. cheering
  11. cheering on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheerily (page history and authors); cheerily (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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