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Confidently vs Happily - What's the difference?

confidently | happily |

As adverbs the difference between confidently and happily

is that confidently is in a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively while happily is (archaic) by chance; perhaps.

confidently

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively.

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    happily

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) By chance; perhaps.
  • *, II.12:
    • And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?
  • By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
  • In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
  • * 1808 , Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe , Minerva Press for Lane and Newman, page 311:
    • And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave to much as to hope for.
  • With good will; in all happiness; willingly.