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AGREEABLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an enjoyable manner
Example:
we spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon
Synonyms:
agreeably; enjoyably; pleasantly
Classified under:
Antonym:
disagreeably (in a disagreeable manner)
Pertainym:
agreeable (conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature)
Context examples:
One accompaniment to her song took her agreeably by surprize—a second, slightly but correctly taken by Frank Churchill.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I was agreeably surprised to find that Littimer was not there, and that we were attended by a modest little parlour-maid, with blue ribbons in her cap, whose eye it was much more pleasant, and much less disconcerting, to catch by accident, than the eye of that respectable man.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He now seated himself by her, and talked so agreeably of Kent and Hertfordshire, of travelling and staying at home, of new books and music, that Elizabeth had never been half so well entertained in that room before; and they conversed with so much spirit and flow, as to draw the attention of Lady Catherine herself, as well as of Mr. Darcy.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Emma was most agreeably surprized.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was not merely in fine words or hyperbolical compliment that he paid his duty; nothing could be more proper or pleasing than his whole manner to her—nothing could more agreeably denote his wish of considering her as a friend and securing her affection.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
