1 in a cheerful way; with feelings of pleasure or satisfaction:
to chat / laugh happily * children playing happily on the beach * to be happily married * I think we can manage quite happily on our own. * And they all lived happily ever after (= used as the end of a fairy story).
2 by good luck
SYNFORTUNATELY:
Happily, the damage was only slight.
3 willingly:
I'll happily help, if I can.
4 (formal) in a way that is suitable or appropriate:
This suggestion did not fit very happily with our existing plans.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for happily is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is happily a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, happily is tagged as adverb.
Does happily appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — happily appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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