happily
/ˈhæp.ə.li/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
Example Sentences
- "This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach."
- "And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for."
- "Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive."
- "Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also."
- "I will happily help you look for your lost wallet."
- "And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhæp.ə.li/
- British English: /ˈhæp.ɪ.li/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more happily (comparative)
happilier (comparative, rare)
most happily (superlative)
happiliest (rare, superlative)