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To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.
Tristan Bernard

Meaning of "happily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HAPPILY

happily  [ˈhæpɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HAPPILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Happily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES HAPPILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

happily

Happiness

Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources. Various research groups, including positive psychology, endeavor to apply the scientific method to answer questions about what "happiness" is, and how it might be attained. It is of such fundamental importance to the human condition that "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" were deemed to be unalienable rights by the United States Declaration of Independence. The United Nations declared 20 March the International Day of Happiness to recognise the relevance of happiness and wellbeing as universal goals. In 2014 Happy became the anthem and inspired clips from around the world.

Definition of happily in the English dictionary

The first definition of happily in the dictionary is cheerfully or contentedly; with satisfaction. Other definition of happily is willingly. Happily is also fortunately; luckily.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HAPPILY


creepily
ˈkriːpɪlɪ
crispily
ˈkrɪspɪlɪ
droopily
ˈdruːpɪlɪ
dumpily
ˈdʌmpɪlɪ
frumpily
ˈfrʌmpɪlɪ
grumpily
ˈɡrʌmpɪlɪ
jumpily
ˈdʒʌmpɪlɪ
lilly-pilly
ˈlɪlɪˌpɪlɪ
lumpily
ˈlʌmpɪlɪ
peppily
ˈpɛpɪlɪ
pillie
ˈpɪlɪ
pulpily
ˈpʌlpɪlɪ
ropily
ˈrəʊpɪlɪ
sappily
ˈsæpɪlɪ
scrappily
ˈskræpɪlɪ
skimpily
ˈskɪmpɪlɪ
sleepily
ˈsliːpɪlɪ
sloppily
ˈslɒpɪlɪ
snappily
ˈsnæpɪlɪ
unhappily
ʌnˈhæpɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HAPPILY

happed
happen
happen by
happen on
happenchance
happening
happenstance
happier
happiest
happiness
happing
happoshu
happy
happy as a sandboy
happy as Larry
happy camper
happy clapper
happy couple
happy event
happy families

WORDS THAT END LIKE HAPPILY

bumpily
chirpily
choppily
croupily
dopily
drippily
floppily
glumpily
loopily
nippily
pily
preppily
roupily
slippily
snippily
snoopily
soppily
stroppily
stumpily
waspily

Synonyms and antonyms of happily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HAPPILY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «happily» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of happily

Translation of «happily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HAPPILY

Find out the translation of happily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of happily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «happily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

快乐地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

felizmente
570 millions of speakers

English

happily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खुशी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بِسَعَادَةٍ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

счастливо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

felizmente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সুখে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

joyeusement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gembira
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

glücklich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

幸福に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

행복하게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seneng banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hạnh phúc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மகிழ்ச்சியுடன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुखाने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mutlu bir şekilde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

felicemente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szczęśliwie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

щасливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

din fericire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χαρούμενα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gelukkig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lyckligt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lykkelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of happily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HAPPILY»

The term «happily» is very widely used and occupies the 12.356 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HAPPILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «happily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «happily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about happily

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10 QUOTES WITH «HAPPILY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word happily.
1
Paula Abdul
I'm happily single.
2
Dean Acheson
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
3
Dan Aykroyd
I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
4
Christine Baranski
I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
5
Graeme Base
I've had an absolutely charmed life in every aspect of it. I do for my job what I would do for a hobby if it wasn't my job. Half the secret of happiness, I'm ecstatically happily married with three great kids, you know. It's been a blessed life.
6
John Battelle
You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.
7
Tristan Bernard
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.
8
Nikki Blonsky
I just want girls to realize, everybody's born a way for a reason, and you are who you are. You should just be yourself at all times. The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.
9
Julie Burchill
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
10
Bernard Cornwell
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAPPILY»

Discover the use of happily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to happily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Happily Even After: A Guide to Getting Through (and Beyond) ...
Award-winning author and grief recovery expert, Carole Brody Fleet follows up the critically acclaimed: "Widows Wear Stilettos" with the aptly-titled, Happily Even After, the first and only book of its kind; answering the most common ...
Carole Brody Fleet, 2013
2
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture ...
Traces the movement of fairy tales as tales to basis for commerce via such routes as Disney films which became promotions for toy spinoffs.
Jack David Zipes, 1997
3
Happily Ever After: Six Secrets to a Successful Marriage
In Happily Ever After, Gary Chapman, the man “who wrote the book” on how to communicate with your spouse, shows couples how to successfully navigate the six most common problems that couples face: fighting fair, negotiating change, ...
Gary Chapman, 2011
4
Project: Happily Ever After: Saving Your Marriage When the ...
A guide for estranged couples shares frank details about the author's own troubled relationship with her husband before launching a last-ditch effort to stay together, outlining her "10-Step Marital Improvement Guide" to cover everything ...
Alisa Bowman, 2010
5
Happily Ever After
In her blockbuster international bestsellers, Harriet Evans perfectly captures the complex lives of young twenty-first-century career women with an “effortlessly readable . . . comic style and loveable characters” (Marie Claire, UK).
Harriet Evans, 2012
6
Happily Remarried: *Making Decisions Together *Blending ...
They point to four key strategies to help bring long-term unity: forgive everyone, including yourself regard remarriage as permanent and irreversible use conflict to get better acquainted form a spiritual connection centered on serving God ...
David Frisbie, Lisa Frisbie, 2005
7
Happily
Poetry. Hejinian's characteristic linguistic intensity and philosophical approach are present in this book-length poem.
Lyn Hejinian, 2000
8
Chas Addams Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to ...
The cartoons in Chas Addams Happily Ever After run the gamut from ecstatic love to disappointed affection to murderous obsession and demonstrate that love really does hurt.
Charles Addams, 2008
9
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Happily Ever After: Fun and ...
Everyone loves to read true stories about how it happened for other people. This book includes the 101 best stories on love and marriage that appeared in a wide variety of past Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, 2011
10
Choose to be Happily Married: How Everyday Decisions Can ...
" Dr. Bonnie Jacobson, author and psychologist of nearly forty years, knows that no couple is perfect and in Choose to Be Happily Married, this is the first and foremost truth.
Bonnie Jacobson, Alexia Paul, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAPPILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term happily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Six foot wide Japanese house is "where people and cats live happily
It's called the 1.8 M House, designed by YUAA architects to fit on a lot 2.5 meters (8'-4") by 11 meters deep (36'-1") yielding an interior average ... «Treehugger, Jul 15»
2
How to Stay Happily Married
"Why do you want to get married?" is a question that I had to address from some friends when I made the decision to get married. There were ... «Huffington Post Canada, Jul 15»
3
HAPPILY AFTER EVER Begins Tonight at 59E59 Theaters
Ricochet Collective and 59E59 Theaters present Laura Zlatos' HAPPILY AFTER EVER, directed by Sherri Eden Barber. Performances are ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
4
Happily Wowing Guests - The New Indian Express
HYDERABAD: Corporate Chef Shailesh Verma, Golkonda Hotel has been in the culinary journey for more than two decades. Apart from his ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
5
'The Affair': It's not happily ever after for Noah and Alison in season …
'The Affair': It's not happily ever after for Noah and Alison in season two trailer [Video]. 'The Affair'It's not happily ever after for Noah and Alison ... «Pulse Nigeria, Jul 15»
6
Arron Afflalo happily signs on to play with Carmelo Anthony again …
LAS VEGAS - Arron Afflalo has had many roles in his eight NBA seasons, from defensive stopper to first option on offense. And one that he ... «Newsday, Jul 15»
7
Julie Klausner Happily Channels Restlessness Into a Podcast, a TV …
You could say it's all because of “Cats.” Julie Klausner was a child when she came into New York City from upstate to see the musical with her ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
8
Put a HoloLens in the Classroom and I'll Happily Go Back to School
Though they're often being lumped together, Microsoft's HoloLens headset is a very different beast to the Oculus Rift. Whereas the Rift wants to ... «Gizmodo India, Jul 15»
9
Woman Happily Married For 6 Years Discovers She's Pregnant …
Vanessa Joy Scavone Adams is an established photographer and has looked at her career as a lifestyle. She has reached her goals of ... «IJ Review, Jul 15»
10
Letter: Carbon County would happily take the prison
With the prison relocation committee looking at four possible sites for the move and residents and officials at all four sites in opposition to taking ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Jul 15»

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