WILLINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does willingly mean? 

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

1. in a willing manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILLINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a willing manner

Synonyms:

volitionally; willingly

Context example:

I willingly accept

Antonym:

unwillingly (in an unwilling manner)

Pertainym:

willing (disposed or inclined toward)

 Context examples 

Poor Fanny! though going as she did willingly and eagerly, the last evening at Mansfield Park must still be wretchedness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I said I would willingly do so, but that she would not have me.

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

It was the last thing I would willingly have done.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Yes, father, right willingly, wait only until it is day.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them to build this City, and my Palace; and they did it all willingly and well.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Urged thus far, I had no choice but to adapt my nature to an element which I had willingly chosen.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Although it required an effort to leave Miss Mills, I fell rather willingly into my aunt's pretence, as a means of enabling me to pass a few tranquil hours with Agnes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The good-natured Mrs. Moffat willingly did so, and had the delicacy not to make her a present of it immediately afterward.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Very willingly," he rejoined; and rising, he strode a little distance up the pass, threw himself down on a swell of heath, and there lay still.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best speed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)