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happily
[ hap-uh-lee ]
adverb
- in a happy manner; with pleasure.
- by good fortune; providentially; luckily.
- felicitously; appropriately; aptly:
a happily turned phrase.
Other Word Forms
- v·p· adverb
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
see live happily ever after .Example Sentences
George had been happily playing with his brother and sister before he fell ill very suddenly, just days after his first birthday in 2012.
For the past 22 years, Mary Huth’s life happily revolved around her twin sons.
Food and drink prices are happily stuck in the 1970s — $1.50 for a pimento cheese sandwich — a charming holdover from yesteryear.
No, this is something more foreboding, albeit a bit mystical with its electrical volt shocks that hint at an afterlife rather than a happily ever after.
Carroll happily moves from cluster to cluster, chatting with the students, relaxed and casual in his slacks and untucked linen shirt.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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