joyfully

joyfully — adverb

1. with great delight that you clearly show in your actions, words, or expression

1.副詞B1
釋義

with great delight that you clearly show in your actions, words, or expression

例句

The children laughed joyfully as they ran through the autumn leaves.

collocation: laugh joyfully / sing joyfully / smile joyfully

Leila joyfully accepted the scholarship offer from the university in Kyoto.

position: before the verb for emphasis

同義詞
  • happily

    more common and less intense; covers a wider range of positive emotions

  • cheerfully

    focuses on an upbeat, positive manner, often in a social context

  • gleefully

    suggests childlike or mischievous delight, sometimes at someone else's expense

  • blissfully

    implies a deeper, more serene happiness, often unaware of troubles

反義詞
  • sadly

    the most common opposite, expressing unhappiness or regret

  • miserably

    suggests a state of deep unhappiness or suffering

  • sorrowfully

    implies grief or mourning, a more formal opposite

用法筆記

Commonly pairs with verbs of visible emotional expression such as smile, laugh, sing, wave, accept, cheer, and dance. Carries a stronger, more emphatic sense of happiness than 'happily'; it implies delight that is openly shown rather than quietly felt.

常見錯誤

❌The children played joyful in the park.
✅The children played joyfully in the park.
💡'joyful' is an adjective and cannot modify an action verb; use the adverb form 'joyfully' instead.
❌She joyfully cried when she lost her keys.
✅She joyfully hugged her brother when she heard the good news.
💡'joyfully' should only describe actions that match a feeling of great happiness; use with neutral or negative situations creates a contradiction.