happily
Syllables: hap·pi·lyUK/ˈhæp.ɪ.li//ˈhæp.ə.li/
happily adverb: in a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
Adverb
happily (comparative more happily or (rare) happilier, superlative most happily or (rare) happiliest)
- In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
- This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach.
- And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 311
- Synonyms:
- cheerfully, joyously
- 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
- With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
- I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.
- Synonyms:
- gladly
- 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
happily meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu
happily in Hindi
- in a happy manner
- सुखपूर्वक sukhpūrvak, ख़ुशी से xuśī se, प्रसन्नतापूर्वक prasannatāpūrvak
- willingly
- प्रसन्नतापूर्वक prasannatāpūrvak
happily in Marathi
- आनंदाने
happily in Urdu
- بہ دل و جان, خوشی سے
happily in Telugu
- in a happy manner
- సుఖముగా sukhamugā
More languagesFewer languages
- happily in Malayalam
- സന്തോഷത്തോടെ, ഭാഗ്യവശാൽ
- happily in Kannada
- ಪದುಳಂ
- happily in Sanskrit
- स्वस्ति svasti
- happily in Arabic
- بِسَعَادَة bi-saʕāda
- happily in Myanmar
- ပျော်ပျော် pyau-pyau
Examples of happily in a sentence
- It is difficult to live in poverty. And they lived happily ever after.
- The pigeons were happily pecking at crumbs of bread on the ground.
- They met, fell in love, got married, and lived happily ever after.
Synonyms of happily
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Antonyms
Forms of happily
| comparative | more happily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most happily |
| comparative (rare) | happilier |
| superlative (rare) | happiliest |
Origin of happily
From Middle English happily, happyly, happyliche, happylyche, equivalent to happy + -ly.
Words formed from happily
Phrases with happily
Words that rhyme with happily
Questions about happily
- What does happily mean?
- Happily means in a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
- What is happily in Hindi?
- Happily in Hindi is सुखपूर्वक (sukhpūrvak), ख़ुशी से (xuśī se), प्रसन्नतापूर्वक (prasannatāpūrvak). See Happily meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is happily?
- Happily is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce happily?
- Happily is pronounced /ˈhæp.ɪ.li/ (UK).
Words near happily in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: happily (page history and authors); happily (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); happily (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); happily (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); happily (Kannada 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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