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Webster 1913 Edition
Pleasantly
Pleas′ant-ly
,adv.
In a pleasant manner.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pleasantly
PLEASANTLY
,adv.
1.
Gayly; merrily; in good humor.2.
Lightly; ludicrously.Definition 2024
pleasantly
pleasantly
English
Alternative forms
- pleasauntlie, plesantlie, pleasauntly, plesantly, plesauntly (all obsolete)
Adverb
pleasantly (comparative more pleasantly, superlative most pleasantly)
- In a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.
- He smiled pleasantly at passersby.
- They were pleasantly surprised at the result.
- (degree) Lightly
- (obsolete) Ludicrously.
- Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 1, Midas
- In workhouses, pleasantly so named, because work cannot be done in them.
- Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 1, Midas
Translations
in a pleasant manner
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References
- “pleasantly” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.