gaily — OET · Shobdo

gaily

adverb

1 she skipped gaily along the path:

merrily, cheerfully, cheerily, happily, joyfully, joyously, light-heartedly, blithely, jauntily, gleefully, with pleasure.

▷antonyms miserably.

2 a harbour full of gaily painted boats:

brightly, brilliantly, colourfully, flamboyantly.

▷antonyms sombrely.

3 pedestrians skipped gaily into the fast-moving traffic:

heedlessly, unthinkingly, thoughtlessly, without thinking, without care, without consideration;

casually, nonchalantly, airily, breezily, lightly, uncaringly.

▷antonyms anxiously.

gaily Oxford Dictionary of English