gladly

3 definitions found

gladly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gladly \Glad"ly\, adv. [From Glad, a.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Preferably; by choice. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The common people heard him gladly.   --Mark xii.
                                                    37.
        [1913 Webster]

gladly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gladly
      adv 1: in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I
             would fain do it" [syn: gladly, lief, fain]

gladly - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "gladly":
     airily, blessedly, blissfully, blithely, cheerfully, cheerily,
     delightedly, ecstatically, elatedly, exultantly, genially, happily,
     hopefully, irrepressibly, jauntily, joyfully, jubilantly, lightly,
     optimistically, pleasantly, rapturously, readily, rhapsodically,
     smilingly, willingly, with good cheer, with pleasure