Word Study
gladly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial gladly has 1 sense
- gladly(r = adv.all) fain, lief - in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would fain do it"
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Preferably; by choice. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly. [1913 Webster]"The common people heard him gladly." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
gladly
airily, blessedly, blissfully, blithely, cheerfully, cheerily, delightedly, ecstatically, elatedly, exultantly, genially, happily, hopefully, irrepressibly, jauntily, joyfully, jubilantly, lightly, optimistically, pleasantly, rapturously, readily, rhapsodically, smilingly, willingly, with good cheer, with pleasure
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