happily
Use Happily in a sentence
ə adverb
1.
in a happy manner; with pleasure.
2.
by good fortune; luckily; providentially.
3.
felicitously; aptly; appropriately: a happily turned phrase.
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happy (ˈhæpɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , -pier, -piest | |
| 1. | feeling, showing, or expressing joy; pleased |
| 2. | willing: I'd be happy to show you around |
| 3. | causing joy or gladness |
| 4. | fortunate; lucky: the happy position of not having to work |
| 5. | aptly expressed; appropriate: a happy turn of phrase |
| 6. | informal (postpositive) slightly intoxicated |
| —interj | |
| 7. | (in combination): happy birthday; happy Christmas |
| [C14: see | |
| 'happily | |
| —adv | |
| 'happiness | |
| —n | |
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Happily
is always a great word to know.
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Slang Dictionary
happily
adv. Of software, used to emphasize that a program is unaware of some important fact about its environment, either because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care. The sense of `happy' here is not that of elation, but rather that of blissful ignorance. "The program continues to run, happily unaware that its output is going to /dev/null." Also used to suggest that a program or device would really rather be doing something destructive, and is being given an opportunity to do so. "If you enter an O here instead of a zero, the program will happily erase all your data." Neverheless, use of this term implies a basically benign attitude towards the program: It didn't mean any harm, it was just eager to do its job. We'd like to be angry at it but we shouldn't, we should try to understand it instead. The adjective "cheerfully" is often used in exactly the same way.
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happily definition
Of software, used to emphasise that a program is unaware of some important fact about its environment, either because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care. The sense of "happy" here is not that of elation, but rather that of blissful ignorance. "The program continues to run, happily unaware that its output is going to /dev/null."
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
The staff in all of my enterprises who work tirelessly and yet happily for the pleasure of others.
Happily, that is a question research can probably answer.
Happily both are manageable, the one by rabbinical, the other by the civil law.
Happily for him, and the prospects of his eventual fortune, his business interests align perfectly with his personal philosophy.
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