thankfully

adverb

thank·​ful·​ly ˈthaŋk-f(ə-)lē 

1

: in a thankful manner

spoke thankfully

2

: as makes one thankful

… graceless stadiums … thankfully going out of fashion …

—R. G. Echevarriá

thankfully, those opinions are advanced with graceful prose

—Ken Auletta

Examples of thankfully in a Sentence

The instructions were thankfully simple.

I always receive your calls thankfully.

Recent Examples on the Web

Jimmy Kimmel's hunch helps with final question The last question posed the biggest challenge for Ding, but thankfully Kimmel had an inkling about turkeys that hadn’t received presidential pardons. — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 30 July 2026

But nothing hitting Earth is thankfully as large as a 25-foot-high fiberglass doughnut. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026

But thankfully for them, Illinois Fighting Illini head coach Bret Bielema is here to remind them. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026

And, thankfully, the union stood up for them and there were some lawsuits and people got returned to work, came back to work — but not all of them. — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 29 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1