enthusiastically

English

Etymology

enthusiastic +‎ -ally

Adverb

enthusiastically (comparative more enthusiastically, superlative most enthusiastically)

1. In an enthusiastic manner.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 16:

     When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?"

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:

     The new sea wall may stop the waves from the sea, but not from the children who enthusiastically greet our train as it passes. It's great to see this ages-old habit is still going strong.

Antonyms

• unenthusiastically

Translations

in an enthusiastic manner

• Afrikaans: entoesiasties
• Catalan: entusiàsticament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱心地／热心地 (zh) (rèxīn de), 狂熱地／狂热地 (zh) (kuángrè de)

• Czech: nadšeně
• Dutch: enthousiast (nl)
• Finnish: innostuneesti (fi), innoissaan (fi)
• French: avec enthousiasme
• Galician: entusiasticamente (gl)
• German: enthusiastisch (de)
• Hungarian: lelkesen (hu)
• Italian: entusiasticamente (it)
• Polish: entuzjastycznie (pl)
• Portuguese: entusiasticamente (pt)
• Russian: с энтузиа́змом (s entuziázmom)
• Spanish: con entusiasmo