festively
adverb
festively is an adverb meaning “In a festive manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-S-T-I-V-E-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does festively mean?
adverb
- 1
In a festive manner
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of festively
- more festively comparative
- most festively superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is festively?
Festively appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Festively in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a festive manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | festivamente |
| Spanish | festivamente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does festively come from?
From festive + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).