Joyously

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a joyful manner; joyfully.

    "Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking joyously."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a joyous and gleeful manner wordnet

Synonyms

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blessedlybubblinglychearfullycheerfullycheerilycheerly

Example

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"And then the forlorn and haunting howls echoed down the river narrows and into our ears from a mile away, and before we had a chance to look at each other in disbelief the dogs answered the pack joyously. "We're over here!" they seemed to say. "And we're over here!" the wolves howled back."

Etymology

From Middle English joyously, equivalent to joyous + -ly.

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