pleasantly
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- pleasauntlie, plesantlie, pleasauntly, plesantly, plesauntly (all obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
pleasantly (comparative more pleasantly, superlative most pleasantly)
- In a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.
- He smiled pleasantly at passersby.
- They were pleasantly surprised at the result.
- (degree) Lightly
- (obsolete) Ludicrously.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 1, Midas
- In workhouses, pleasantly so named, because work cannot be done in them.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 1, Midas
Translations[edit]
in a pleasant manner
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References[edit]
- Webster, Noah (1828), “pleasantly”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language