joyfully

1. 1.

   in a joyous and gleeful manner

   “the old man had greeted her gleefully”

   Synonymsgleefullyjoyously

   Antonymsjoylessly

Questions about joyfully

What does joyfully mean?

joyfully means "in a joyous and gleeful manner".

How many syllables are in joyfully?

joyfully has 3 syllables: joy-ful-ly. The stress falls on "joy". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɔɪfəli/.

What is another word for joyfully?

Close synonyms include gleefully, joyously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of joyfully?

The recorded antonyms are joylessly.

Is joyfully a common word?

joyfully is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.