-pə̇lē, -li adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from happy + -ly
1. : by good fortune : fortunately , luckily
the date … has been happily preserved for posterity — Sydney Race
2. archaic : by chance : haply
3. : in a happy manner or state : with feelings of contentment
I was driving happily along — Richard Joseph
4. : in an adequate or fitting manner : aptly , successfully , appropriately , felicitously
poetry writing and breadwinning do not go happily together — Kenneth Mackenzie
chances are he will mix the two very happily — Leslie Check
a matured poetic intelligence … happily fused with the creative heat of poetic imagination — H.V.Gregory