Joyfully

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Joyful \Joy"ful\, a.
     Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful
     heart. "Joyful tidings." --Shak.
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           My soul shall be joyful in my God.       --Is. lxi. 10.


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           Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. --Pope.
     -- {Joy"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  joyfully
       adv : in a joyous and gleeful manner; "the old man had greeted her
             gleefully" [syn: {gleefully}, {joyously}] [ant: {joylessly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

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