Found 5 hits - Term: happily, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
happily \hap"pily\ ha^p"pi^ly^, adv. from happy.
1. by chance; peradventure; haply. obs. --piers plowman.
1913 webster
2. by good fortune; fortunately; luckily.
1913 webster
preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. --waller.
1913 webster
3. in a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he
lived happily with his wife.
1913 webster
4. with address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a
manner to insure success; with success.
1913 webster
formed by thy converse, happily to steer
from grave to gay, from lively to severe. --pope.
syn: fortunately; luckily; successfully; prosperously;
contentedly; dexterously; felicitously.
1913 webster
see also:
happy
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
happily
adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" syn: merrily,
mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly, with
happiness ant: unhappily
2: in an unexpectedly lucky way; "happily he was not injured"
ant: sadly
see also:
merrily mirthfully gayly blithely jubilantly with happiness
unhappily sadly
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
43 moby thesaurus words for "happily":
agreeably, airily, blessedly, blissfully, blithely, cheerfully,
cheerily, delightedly, ecstatically, elatedly, enthusiastically,
exultantly, favorably, fortunately, gaily, genially, gladly,
gleefully, heartily, hopefully, irrepressibly, jauntily, joyfully,
jubilantly, lightly, luckily, merrily, opportunely, optimistically,
peaceably, pleasantly, propitiously, prosperously, providentially,
rapturously, rhapsodically, satisfyingly, smilingly, successfully,
swimmingly, willingly, with good cheer, with pleasure
- [4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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.
- [5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
happily
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."
jargon file
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jargon file
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