transcription, транскрипция: [ merɪli ]
1.
If you say that someone merrily does something, you are critical of the fact that they do it without realizing that there are a lot of problems which they have not thought about.
There they were, merrily describing their 16-hour working days while simultaneously claiming to be happily married...
= blithely
ADV : ADV with v [ disapproval ]
2.
If you say that something is happening merrily , you mean that it is happening fairly quickly, and in a pleasant or satisfactory way.
The ferry cut merrily through the water...
ADV : ADV with v
3.
see also merry