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# playfully

«playfully» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a joking, teasing way, as if for fun and not to hurt** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (playfully; more playfully, most playfully)

### meaning for a pupil

Playfully means in a joking, teasing way, as if for fun and not to hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playfully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a dog or a man shows a mood of fun: he taps someone on the shoulder playfully, or frisks playfully about

### examples

- The miller slapped the hunter on the shoulder playfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playfully/#x1)
- The dog frisked playfully about the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playfully/#x2)
- The child shook his fist playfully at the old man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playfully/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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