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delightedly

delightedly adverb: in a delighted manner.

Adverb

delightedly (comparative more delightedly, superlative most delightedly)

  1. In a delighted manner.
    • Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans,
      And spirits; and delightedly believes
      Divinities, being himself divine.1800, Friedrich Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act II, Scene IV, p. 82, For fable is Love’s world, his...
    • Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his pre-mortem theoretical calculations and post-mortem practical measurements hardly varied.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 126

Forms of delightedly

comparativemore delightedly
superlativemost delightedly

Origin of delightedly

From delighted + -ly.

Questions about delightedly

What does delightedly mean?
Delightedly means in a delighted manner.
What part of speech is delightedly?
Delightedly is an adverb.

Words near delightedly in the dictionary

  1. delight in
  2. delightable
  3. delighte
  4. delighted
  5. delighted in
  6. delightedly
  7. delightedness
  8. delighter
  9. delighters
  10. delightes
  11. delightest

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