Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Happily \Hap"pi*ly\, adv. [From {Happy}.]
1. By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
2. By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.
Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. --Waller.
3. In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he
lived happily with his wife.
4. With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a
manner to success; with success.
Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave
to gay, from lively to severe. --Pope.
Syn: Fortunately; luckily; successfully; prosperously;
contentedly; dexterously; felicitously.
Source : WordNet®
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}]
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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."
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