ELATEDLY Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

elatedly

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as in rapturously

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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

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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

Definition of blissfully

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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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