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happilier

happilier is the comparative form of happily.

Meaning of happily

Adverb

happily (comparative more happily or (rare) happilier, superlative most happily or (rare) happiliest)

  1. In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
    • This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach.
    Synonyms:
    cheerfully, joyously
  2. 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, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
  3. With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
    • I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.
    Synonyms:
    gladly
  4. (archaic) By chance; perhaps.
    • And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    haply

Questions about happilier

What is happilier the comparative form of?
Happilier is the comparative form of happily.

Words near happilier in the dictionary

  1. happified
  2. happifies
  3. happify
  4. happifying
  5. happiless
  6. happilier
  7. happiliest
  8. happily
  9. happily ever after
  10. happily ever afters
  11. happily-ever-after

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