happily
adverb (happily, more happily, most happily)
Everyday
- Happily means in a happy, cheerful way. tree →
- Happily means willingly, gladly. tree →
- Happily can mean «luckily»: «Happily, nobody was hurt.» tree →
In the lessons
In stories many fairy tales end «and they lived happily ever after». In writing lessons pupils use adverbs like happily, sadly, quickly to show how something is done. In everyday talk «I'll happily help» means «I am glad to help». Phrases: happily ever after, happily married, happily playing.
Examples
- The children played happily in the garden. tree →
- They lived happily ever after. tree →
- I would happily help you. tree →
- The dog wagged its tail happily. tree →
- Happily, nobody was hurt in the crash. tree →
- She smiled happily at her new puppy. tree →
- Little Two-eyes lived happily for a long time. tree →
Note
Spelling: happy → happily (y changes to i, add -ly). Same with easy → easily, angry → angrily. Opposite: sadly, unhappily.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «happily» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «happily» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/happily/