Synonyms of merrily

merrily

adverb

as in cheerfully

in a cheerful or happy manner

our coworker merrily announced that it was her birthday, so we felt obligated to treat her to lunch

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheerfully
• happily
• brightly
• joyfully
• cheerily
• jovially
• smilingly
• mirthfully
• gaily
• heartily
• jocosely
• joyously
• blithely
• giddily
• exuberantly
• laughingly
• amusedly
• breezily
• lightheartedly
• blissfully
• gladly
• friendly
• good-naturedly
• amicably
• optimistically
• jocularly
• sunnily
• hopefully
• rapturously
• sanguinely
• good-humoredly
• gigglingly
• euphorically
• friendlily
• elatedly
• blithesomely
• gladsomely

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unhappily
• heavily
• miserably
• darkly
• morosely
• dejectedly
• disconsolately
• bleakly
• mournfully
• despondently
• sorrowfully
• forlornly
• wretchedly
• abjectly
• dolefully
• plaintively
• cheerlessly
• glumly
• sullenly
• sternly
• dispiritedly
• sulkily
• sourly
• gloomily
• dourly
• dismally
• drearily
• dolorously
• pessimistically
• mirthlessly
• blackly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of merrily

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

American audiences will find out when the director’s West End production, starring Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston as the merrily warring lovers Beatrice and Benedick, arrives on Broadway. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

Ideally one composed of your old, gold, merrily-we-roll-along friends. — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026

Meanwhile, the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder continue to roll merrily along, seemingly intent on winning every championship in the near future. — Bob Harkins, New York Times, 7 May 2026

This Christmas white cake sings merrily with the tart, citrus flavors of a cherry, orange, and cranberry filling. — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 1 May 2026

The Ultra Music Festival merrily rolls along in its 26th year Friday through Sunday at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026

The sick humor of an inappropriately large insect thrashing on the bed gives way to the morbid humor of the new family of three proceeding merrily with their small lives. — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026