delightedly

adverb

as in gleefully

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Recent Examples of delightedly His daughter yelps delightedly as a calf wanders close to the fence. — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 16 May 2026 Since the end of the Second World War, the United States and its allies had maintained a system of humanitarian interventionism, until the President so delightedly detonated it. — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026 Random House had just made an initial public offering, and the Cerfs delightedly sent him a Christmas gift of five shares. — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026 But there's also no other show so delightedly in on its own joke. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for delightedly
  1. gleefully
  2. cheerfully
  3. merrily
  4. cheerily
  5. lightheartedly
  6. joyfully
  7. joyously
  8. gaily
Adverb
  • Doncic capped the chippy matchup with flair, banking in a half-court shot at the buzzer and then gleefully pointing at the fuming rookie.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • On Wednesday, the mood was gleefully electric as Atlanta comprehensively dismantled their opponents to take control of the series.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of gleefully
Adverb
  • Moments after sitting down at an outdoor table, Oppenheim breathes in the ocean air and starts cheerfully free-associating.
    — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
  • There were hundreds of bikers milling around cheerfully in the showery sunshine and proudly displaying their hogs.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of cheerfully
Adverb
  • Daunt asked merrily, and led me in a zigzag through the parking lot of the Adnams brewery, then out to the bookshop, a chip-shop-size storefront with a blue exterior.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • For the handful of teams chasing a pennant this month, life rolls merrily along.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of merrily
Adverb
  • In 2016, Brexiteers imagined that other European countries would follow their example and cheerily recover absolute sovereignty as liberated nation-states.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Ashley Graham, co-founder of Lucci Lambrusco, cheerily celebrates the brand at Pizzeria Portofino in Chicago on July 15.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
Definition of cheerily
Adverb
  • The idea of replacing caddies with animals, lightheartedly suggested by moderator Eben Novy-Williams?
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Paltzik did not confirm the authenticity of the message but still suggested they were made lightheartedly.
    — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 21 Oct. 2025
Definition of lightheartedly
Adverb
  • And transforms into a person that just lets her freak flag fly, joyfully.
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Peralta pumped a fist and screamed joyfully walking off the mound in the sixth after fanning Petey Halpin swinging at a 3-2 changeup.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of joyfully
Adverb
  • Still, weight loss and some subtle injectable treatments have been interpreted as something to be joyously celebrated with you-go-girl enthusiasm.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 18 Oct. 2026
  • When Oscar halfheartedly tries to throw a ball into one of the set’s prop cubes and improbably makes the shot, the whole set goes joyously nuts, with the performers leaping up to embrace him and cavort around him.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of joyously
Adverb
  • The sunlight through the café windows moved gaily and bounced.
    — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Cicadas thrummed gaily, fields shimmered with bird and insect life.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
Definition of gaily

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“Delightedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delightedly. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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