happily

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happily - 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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happily - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  happily
      adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn:
             happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely,
             jubilantly] [ant: unhappily]
      2: in an unexpectedly lucky way; "happily he was not injured"
         [ant: sadly, unhappily]

happily - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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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happily - 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.
  

happily - 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