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precisely

English

Etymology

precise +? -ly

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p???sa?sli/
  • Hyphenation: pre?cise?ly

Adverb

precisely (comparative more precisely, superlative most precisely)

  1. (manner) In a precise manner; exactly.
    Synonyms: exactly, incisively; see also Thesaurus:exactly
    Antonym: imprecisely
  2. (focus) Used to provide emphasis.

Translations

precisely From the web:

  • what precisely means
  • what precisely is the team expected to deliver
  • what do precisely mean
  • what is meant by precisely
  • what does precisely mean

happily

English

Etymology

From Middle English happily, happyly, happyliche, happylyche, equivalent to happy +? -ly.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?ha.p?.li/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?hæ.p?.li/

Adverb

happily (comparative more happily, superlative most happily)

  1. (archaic) By chance; perhaps.
    Synonym: haply
  2. By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
  3. In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
    • 1808, Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Minerva Press for Lane and Newman, page 311:
      And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.
  4. With good will; in all happiness; willingly.

Translations

happily From the web:

  • what happily married couples do
  • what happily ever after means
  • what happily means
  • what happily married means
  • what happily ever after
  • what's happily married in french
  • happily what does it mean
  • what does happily ever after mean
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