CHEERFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cheerfully mean? 

• CHEERFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb CHEERFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a cheerful manner

  Familiarity information: CHEERFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEERFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a cheerful manner

Context example:

he cheerfully agreed to do it

Antonym:

cheerlessly (in an unhappy manner)

Pertainym:

upbeat (pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic)

 Context examples 

He received no stars or bars, but he deserved them, for he cheerfully risked all he had, and life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“And now?” Maud asked cheerfully, when the task was accomplished and I pulled on my mittens.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Again and again he recurred to the fact that if he could be assured that society was freed from Professor Moriarty he would cheerfully bring his own career to a conclusion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“God bless her!” said I, cheerfully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was spreading out his sugar, which he had saved, in the window, and was manifestly beginning his fly-catching again; and beginning it cheerfully and with a good grace.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She wrote cheerfully, seemed surrounded with comforts, and mentioned nothing which she could not praise.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was forced to speak, and to speak cheerfully too.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He had been speaking of her cheerfully from the hour of his coming home.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I think I may trick them,” the knight answered cheerfully, and passed his order to the archers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)