blissfully

adverb

as in rapturously

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Recent Examples of blissfully While his 20th-century contemporaries struggled to shake off the dogma of the Bauhaus, the dominant design ideology in Europe from the 1920s through the end of World War II, Gio Ponti remained blissfully agnostic to any single idea of utopia. — Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2026 Until then, my first visit to the volcanic Greek island had been blissfully quiet. — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 2026 Divine has already recovered some of the original clips that disappeared when Vine was shut down in 2017 and so far remains blissfully slop-free. — Eliza Thompson, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 The rooms are spacious, comfortable, immaculately pressed and cleaned, and blissfully quiet. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Next are the sunny days and cool nights of high-altitude summers, which encourage production of sugars and other compounds that make the fruits teasingly tangy and blissfully sweet. — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026 Introduce Challenges To ‘Me’ Time The fourth trimester is often portrayed as a time when new parents are supposed to feel blissfully over-the-moon that their baby is in their arms. — Melissa Willets, Parents, 15 Sep. 2026 Shifting was fuss-free, and each change was blissfully silent. — ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026 The cups on display, with sleek forms and graphic twinkles, immediately felt relatable yet also transcendent, the boundary between life and art blissfully obliterated. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blissfully
  1. rapturously
  2. optimistically
  3. hopefully
  4. euphorically
  5. blithely
  6. friendly
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  • Yokocho Handrolls and Omakase Bar was one of the first (if not the first), though Noriko Handroll Bar underneath Perilla Fare was the most rapturously welcomed and, for a while, the hardest reservation in town.
    — John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • In fact, his film is rapturously alive with the lulling sounds and intoxicating sites of the natural world, artfully expressed through its soundtrack and sensual cinematography.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 13 May 2026
Definition of rapturously
Adverb
  • Taken together, these reasons have led me to optimistically conclude that the effectiveness of vote buying depends not on the party machine’s prowess but on the strength of the parties that oppose it.
    — Kenneth Greene, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Wall Street is optimistically mixed on Workday’s prospects for successfully rounding the AI bend.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of optimistically
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  • Between all the father-son dynamics dancing around the eight scheduled episodes, being hunted down by mercs, and his transcendent search for meaning, Vision and his saga are hopefully headed to a peaceful end.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Again, that hopefully will yield a debut album that fully captures her generation’s campy disenchantment and roiling vulnerability.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of hopefully
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  • Yes, Bon Appetit, Your Majesty has a happy ending—euphorically, nonsensically so.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Definition of euphorically
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  • Only classic screwball comedians have delivered dialogue as blithely as Malkovich does here, with zingers that float off unburdened by the heaviness of the real world.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • While the tone may often feel blithely throwaway, the filmmaking is never careless.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of blithely
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  • Don’t assume a friendly-sounding label extends to every species.
    — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Villarreal friendly offered a glimpse of both the potential and the challenge.
    — Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
Definition of friendly

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“Blissfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blissfully. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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