English Dictionary

happily

/ˈhæp.ə.li/

adv

In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness. / By good chance; fortunately, successfully. / With good will; in all happiness; willingly. / (archaic) By chance; perhaps.

She smiled happily at her friends.

意味（1）

In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.

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.

意味（2）

By good chance; fortunately, successfully.

Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.

意味（3）

With good will; in all happiness; willingly.

I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.

意味（4）

(archaic) By chance; perhaps.

And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?