Usually means: Expressing gratitude for fortunate outcomes.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. thankfully: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thankfully: Merriam-Webster
  3. thankfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thankfully: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thankfully: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thankfully, thankfully: Wordnik
  7. thankfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. thankfully: Wiktionary
  9. thankfully: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thankfully: Dictionary.com
  11. thankfully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. thankfully: Rhymezone
  13. thankfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. thankfully: FreeDictionary.org
  15. thankfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. thankfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thankfully: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thankfully: Idioms

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▸ adverb:  In a thankful manner; giving thanks.
▸ adverb:  (sometimes proscribed) fortunately, gratefully.

Similar:
thankably, gratefully, thankly, mercifully, unthankfully, gladfully, gladly, blessedly, obligedly, fortunately, more...

Opposite:
unfortunately, regrettably, sadly

Phrases:
say thankfully, thankfully clueless, more...

Colors:
    sunset orange,     golden yellow,     sky blue,     forest green,     lavender, more...



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Similar:
thankably, gratefully, thankly, mercifully, unthankfully, gladfully, gladly, blessedly, obligedly, fortunately, more...

Opposite:
unfortunately, regrettably, sadly

Phrases:
say thankfully, thankfully clueless, more...

Colors:
    sunset orange,     golden yellow,     sky blue,     forest green,     lavender, more...



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