HAPPILY


Meaning of HAPPILY in English

-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

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.