Gaily

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪli

Origin

gay + -ly

Full definition of gaily

Adverb

1. Merrily.
2. Showily.
• 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 7, The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.