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# merrily

«merrily» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **In a happy, cheerful, jolly way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (merrily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a happy, cheerful, jolly way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/#m1)

2) Carelessly, without thinking about trouble, as in «He merrily ignored the warning». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Common in songs, carols and stories: «Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.» «Ding dong merrily on high» is a Christmas carol. It tells the reader things are cheerful.

### examples

- The fire crackled merrily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/#x1)
- The children sang merrily in the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/#x2)
- Row, row, row your boat, merrily down the stream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/#x3)
- The Rat sculled merrily along the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/#x4)
- The bells rang merrily on Christmas morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/#x5)
- He merrily ate the last cake, not knowing it was mine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/#x6)
- Then he got into his cart and trotted merrily home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/#x7)

### note

From «merry» + «-ly»: y changes to i: merrily. Opposite: sadly, gloomily.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «merrily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/merrily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.