Happily vs Opportunely - What's the difference?
happily | opportunely | Related terms |
(archaic) By chance; perhaps.
*, II.12:
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:
With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
In a manner suitable for some particular purpose.
In a manner convenient or advantageous at some particular time.
Happily is a related term of opportunely.
As adverbs the difference between happily and opportunely
is that happily is (archaic) by chance; perhaps while opportunely is in a manner suitable for some particular purpose.happily
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?
- 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.