happilyadverb
uk/ˈhæp.əl.i/us/ˈhæp.əl.i/happily adverb (PLEASED)
B1 in a happy way:
He was happily married with two young children.
She munched happily on her chocolate bar.
B2 willingly:
I'd happily offer to help him if I thought it would make any difference.
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- There she sat, happily chomping her breakfast.
- She married young and settled happily into domesticity.
- After nine years in Cambridge, Susannah and Guy moved to Watlington, where they lived happily ever after.
- We've been happily married for five years.
- They'll quite happily squander a whole year's savings on two weeks in the sun.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punch idiom
- be as high as a kite idiom
- be dancing in the streets idiom
- be floating on air idiom
- be full of the joys of spring idiom
- be in seventh heaven idiom
- breezy
- brighten
- contented
- dance
- delighted
- ecstatic
- elated
- incandescent
- jolly
- jump for joy idiom
- light-hearted
- look/feel like a million dollars idiom
- loved up
- made up
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Ready and willing
happily adverb (LUCKY)
C1 having a good or lucky result:
Happily, the weather remained fine throughout the afternoon.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Good luck and bad luck
- a blessing in disguise idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- blessing
- favour
- godsend
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- hard luck! idiom
- lap
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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