adv
In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
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.
By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.
With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.
By chance; perhaps.
And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?