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

Patients with genital warts used to fill our college clinics, and now thankfully are significantly less common. —Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025

And the fight scenes — of which there are thankfully many — are fluid, clear, and thrilling. —Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2025

While Medwin’s voiceover thankfully ceases after that first scene, a heavy-handed score serves much the same purpose, prodding us toward big and obvious emotions rather than contrasting or highlighting them. —Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2025

But thankfully, it is intended to be a global model, as compared to the N-One, which was a Japanese-only car. —New Atlas, 19 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

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