| adv. | 1. | By chance; peradventure; haply. |
| 2. | By good fortune; fortunately; luckily. | |
| 3. | In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; | |
| 4. | With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to insure success; with success. |
| Adv. | 1. | happily - in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" Antonyms: unhappily - in an unpleasant way; "they were unhappily married" |
| 2. | happily - in an unexpectedly lucky way; "happily he was not injured" |
| 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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