Meanings
comparative more gaily · superlative most gaily
- datedMerrily.
Synonyms: gayly, joyously, blessedly, bubblingly, chearfully, cheerfully, cheerily, cheerly
- datedShowily.
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbMerrily.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian весело, радостно
- весело (veselo)merrily
- радостно (radostno)merrily
Catalan gaiament
- gaiamentmerrily
Czech vesele
- veselemerrily
Esperanto gaje
- gajemerrily
Finnish hilpeästi, iloisesti
- hilpeästimerrily
- iloisestimerrily
French gaiement
- gaiementmerrily
Polish wesoło, radośnie
- wesołomerrily
- radośniemerrily
- pogodniemerrily
Romanian vesel
- veselmerrily
Swedish glatt, muntert
- glattmerrily
- muntertmerrily
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with gaily
Cite this entry
gaily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaily
“gaily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaily. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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