peacefully
/ˈpiːsfəli/
peacefully adverb: in a peaceful manner.
Adverb
peacefully (comparative more peacefully, superlative most peacefully)
- In a peaceful manner.
- She and her husband managed to fix up a false floor in one of their rooms in which they fed the roosters; so whenever a picket came in sight her call would bring the whole family out of the woods and clearing into the refuge, where they remained peacefully amongst corn-cobs till the danger had...1881, Thomas Hughes, Rugby, Tennessee, Macmillan and Co., page 58
peacefully meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam
peacefully in Hindi
- शांतिपूर्वक
peacefully in Tamil
- அமைதியாக
peacefully in Marathi
- शांततापूर्णपणे
peacefully in Malayalam
- സമാധാനപരമായി, സമാധാനപൂർവം
More languagesFewer languages
- peacefully in Kannada
- ಶಾಂತಿಯುತವಾಗಿ
- peacefully in Gujarati
- શાંતિપૂર્વક
Examples of peacefully in a sentence
- The protests began peacefully but turned into riots after several days.
- Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.
- Different religions can coexist peacefully in one society.
Forms of peacefully
| comparative | more peacefully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most peacefully |
Origin of peacefully
From Middle English peesfully, peasfullie, paisfulike, paisfullic, equivalent to peaceful + -ly.
Questions about peacefully
- What does peacefully mean?
- Peacefully means in a peaceful manner.
- What is peacefully in Hindi?
- Peacefully in Hindi is शांतिपूर्वक. See Peacefully meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is peacefully?
- Peacefully is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce peacefully?
- Peacefully is pronounced /ˈpiːsfəli/.
Words near peacefully in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: peacefully (page history and authors); peacefully (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peacefully (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peacefully (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peacefully (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peacefully (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peacefully (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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