Adverb

(en adverb)

In a blissful, happy or joyful manner.

* 1834 Heman Humphrey - Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews

What changes will be wrought in the character and condition of mankind, as the millennium advances and rolls blissfully away.

* 2000 Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - Love Is a Fire: A Sufi's Mystical Journey Home

I walked the blissfully painful path of human love with intoxication and tears, always knowing that love's essence was elsewhere, hidden and yet addictively present.

Adverb

(-)

Without care, concern, or consideration.

As the bombs fell on the city, the woman blithely continued with her chores.

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In a joyful, carefree manner.

(obsolete) In a kind manner.