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[syn: gladly, lief, fain]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gladly \Glad"ly\, adv. [From Glad, a.]
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1. Preferably; by choice. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly.
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The common people heard him gladly. --Mark xii.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gladly
adv 1: in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I
would fain do it" [syn: gladly, lief, fain]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "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