Happily
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Happily \Hap"pi*ly\ (h[a^]p"p[i^]*l[y^]), adv. [From {Happy}.]
1. By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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2. By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.
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Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. --Waller.
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3. In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he
lived happily with his wife.
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4. With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a
manner to insure success; with success.
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Formed by thy converse, happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. --Pope.
Syn: Fortunately; luckily; successfully; prosperously;
contentedly; dexterously; felicitously.
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from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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."
Nevertheless, 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.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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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from
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
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